“Am I going to watch my son die on the bed? His tummy is swollen. This scares me a lot,” the songstress, Stella Monye, cried as she opened up about her child, Ibrahim, who is battling for life.
“I’m stretched already. Money is not coming from anywhere. I want Nigerians to help me. I want them to see me through,” she said in a tearful voice.
The artiste, who was popular in her days and had hits such as Oko mi ye and Ari go samba, said, “my son must be alive. I expect those who can help to please do so. I can still work. I can still do my music, but my son has to be alive for that creativity to come back.”
Though she cannot put a figure to how much is required for the treatment, which she said owes much to the family missing appointments and other challenges, she added: “We have missed three appointments. Now that we have kept away, things have started going wrong.
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