Family of the 24-year-old female skit maker, Annastasia Olamma, has kicked against her decision to donate one of her kidneys to Sonia Ekweremadu, daughter of a former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
The budding skitmaker had on Tuesday made the offer after Sonia, in an emotion-ladden open letter, announced that she needed a kidney donor because she had been diagnosed with rare kidney disease, FSGS Nephrotic Syndrome.
Sonia’s passionate appeal is came months after her parents’s arrest and continued detention in the United Kingdom by the UK Metropolitan Police for conspiracy to facilitate the travel of another person for organ harvesting.
In reaction, Olamma unequivocally stated that she was ready to donate her kidney to give Sonia a lifeline and would want nothing in return.
Recall that Olamma trended some weeks ago after she took to social media to make her intention known to get married to veteran Nollywood actor, Kenneth Aguba, who was homeless at the time.
Taking to her Facebook timeline, Olamma wrote, “I (Annastasia Michael Olamma) want to donate one of my kidneys to Sonia Ekweremadu to save her life. I have made up my mind to do this to prove women can help women.
“If any of her relatives, mum, dad, and siblings cannot give out their kidneys to save their bloodline, then I will donate my own to save Sonia and I demand nothing in return. I pray it matches with her own.”
However, Olamma’s family members kicked against her decision, forcing her to take to Facebook Live to plead with them to allow her to go ahead with it.
“Yes, my family members are against it. I expected that initially because when my dad got to know about it, he wasn’t cool with the idea. He was like ‘you want to go and kill yourself?’ My family, I know this thing might hurt you people but please I am begging you… I wish to save somebody’s life. Pray for me so that nothing will happen to me. Pray for me so that the whole thing will go successfully,” she said.
