Nollywood actor Ibrahim Chatta has recounted how he lost his first child and buried her with wooden crate.
Chatta, in a video on Abiola Orisile Events & Parties TV on YouTube, said he lost the child, who was his first daughter, due to his inability to pay the hospital bill.
According to him, he trekked across Lagos in an attempt to find help, but he could not raise the money.
“My first child is not Malik. The first child I had died,” the actor said. “I trekked from Ijora Badia, passed through Orile, Itolo… places I used to hawk puff-puff.
“I went through Shitta, Lawanson, Stadium, Costain railway till I got to Makoko, yet I couldn’t get any money until the child died.
“We buried her in a crate of Coke, the olden days wooden crate of coke.”
Chatta also recalled how his wife broke into tears after learning of the tragic passing of his first child. He noted that she got to know after he travelled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to buy a diamond for his only daughter Awawu,
He added, “When I went to Dubai and bought a diamond anklet for Awawu, her mother was upset, saying I should have bought it for her who gave birth to the child, but I told her, this is my only daughter. I had one before, but she died.
“She was buried in a wooden crate of Coke. All of them just started crying and I was cooking in the kitchen. They’d never heard the story before then.”
The father of three also expressed his desire to have more kids and how Awawu was named after “my mother because she was born after my mother’s death”.
He added that there’s nothing the girl “wants to buy that I won’t give her”.
'𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞,' 𝐈𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬
“My first child is not Malik. The first child I had died,” he said. “I trekked from Ijora Badia,… pic.twitter.com/yR5z8FQadJ
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