Kidney transplant: Sound Sultan, others launch N50m campaign for Emma Ugolee

Friends of entertainment broadcaster, Emma Ugolee, have launched a campaign to raise N50million for him to undergo kidney transplant.

The presenter of The Gist on HipTV has been battling chronic kidney for five years according to singers, Sound Sultan and Djinee who posted appeals for help on Instagram on Thursday.

450k every month for the past 5 years on dialysis(27m) .Thats what one of my very best friends @emmaugolee has used off his money and inner circle good will. Waiting for transplant for that long doesn’t Only take its toll on your body but on your will to survive .but NO Not Emma neither had been affected not until now, his body can’t afford to be on dialysis anymore.please help support one of the people that started off this new era of the entertainment industry . On MBi now on GIST ON HIPTV .PLEASE NOTHING IS TOO SMALL. NIGERIANS ARE TOO GOOD NOT TO HELP EMMA. NO MAGOMAGO HERE O.

A photo posted by Naija Ninjas (@soundsultan) on Dec 22, 2016 at 12:04am PST

@emmaugolee called me yesterday and his words were “Bro, the doctors said they can’t continue to prick me anymore. My blood vessels are collapsing from 5 years of dialysis. They said I have to do the surgery now”. I sunk. Because I’ve been with him for close to half the dialysis sessions and witnessed first hand the pain that comes with the many complications including one failed kidney transplant. How he remains so strong and optimistic beats me. My friend is not perfect but he is a good soul and deserves better from life. Always looking out for everyone even in his state. Infact I witnessed one of those sessions where he paid for another patient who was in the same ward, strapped to the dialyser as he was. And there were many of such bailouts from Emma. His refusal for 5years to solicit for public help characterises Emma’s personality. Some might call it pride but I call it the refusal of a man to burden others with “his problem”. So when he called yesterday, it wasn’t that he had given up but our (his friends) collective cry for help. Please I beg of you, look at the picture attached to the post. Support with any amount. HE NEEDS THE SURGERY NOW! NO MORE DIALYSIS! God bless you as you’ve read this.

A photo posted by Djinee (@djinee) on Dec 21, 2016 at 11:34pm PST

Ugolee had revealed shortly after the death of another entertainer, OJB Jezreel, from kidney related illness that he had been suffering from similar condition for four years.

He said many called him after OJB died to check how he was doing’

“The general concern being the psychological impact of being reminded of the likelihood of one’s demise thanks to the unpredictable and deadly nature of living without a functional kidney,” he wrote.

“For closer friends, aware that I had lost many associates to this struggle, three being in the last three months and that each one lived with issues less complicated than mine, calling me was like checking up on a pal on death row.”