MR IBU'S AMPUTATION

The family of comic actor, John Okafor, also known as Mr. Ibu, has responded to misguided rumors encompassing Mr. Ibu's wellbeing, uncovering that the actor has not gone through amputation on both legs.

They explained that the underlying amputation demonstrated inadequate to determine his wellbeing challenges, which prompted a resulting amputation on a  leg.

The family likewise disproved claims crediting Mr. Ibu's ailment to diabetes, revealing that the actor has been fighting with thickening of the blood in his leg.

This was contained in a post on the actors's Instagram page on Saturday, December 16

It says, 

“We wish to express our sincere gratitude to well-meaning Nigerians and the general public for your immense contributions, physically, spiritually, and most above all financially on getting our daddy Mr John Okafor (Mr Ibu) back on his feet again.

“We wish to correct some misconceptions making rounds on social media concerning the current state of our father’s health.

“First, we would like to state that our daddy wasn’t amputated on both legs but only one. The first amputation didn’t completely correct his health predicament so the doctors had to go ahead to amputate the same leg further to ensure we didn’t lose him.

“Daddy’s cause of sickness is also not diabetes but he’s had constant clotting of the blood in his leg (diseased blood vessels) and other health challenges posing risk to his life, therefore the need for the amputation.

“Lastly, the only reason why the family has not flown him out of the country to date is that the doctors have tagged him ‘Not Fit to Fly’.

“This tag has made it extremely impossible to get him out of the country for advanced treatment as no airline will fly him.