Popular Nollywood actor, Kayode Odumosu, aka. Pa Kasunmu, has fallen ill again.
This time, the actor’s condition is so
serious that members of his family have moved him from his home in
Abeokuta to his elder sister’s residence at Aseese, an Ogun community
situated off the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Looking quite emaciated and frail when
our correspondent paid him a visit on Wednesday, Odumosu admitted that
his health worsened shortly after returning from India, where he had
gone to receive treatment for a heart-related ailment that also affected
his eyesight and memory, in 2015.
“I spent just nine days in India. I
thought that I would receive full treatment. But when I had got there,
they told me that it was for evaluation. Then they asked me to come back
after two months.
“Later, after I had recovered from the
illness, I started thinking about how to get funds for my second journey
to India. But I couldn’t find my international passport and that of the
nurse that accompanied me on the first trip,” he said.
He said that, along the line, he was
invited by fellow Thespian, Tunji Bamishigbin, to take part in the
shooting of a new movie in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State in the same year.
Although Odumosu really did not want to
appear in a movie anymore until he had gone back to India for proper
treatment, he said he was tempted into accepting another invitation to
participate in a movie shoot in the Ikorodu area of Lagos about three
months ago.
Asked if he was supposed to feature in a
movie, while recuperating from the ailment, he replied, “Not really.
But, you know that when it comes to something you know, you will want to
do it. In fact, the coordinator of the last movie shoot I attended
didn’t want me to get involved at all.”
Odumosu also admitted that his vision
has gone bad again. “I see double and images are always blurred,” he
said, adding that his eyes were not this bad two years ago.
The actor wishes that he could obtain a new passport and return to India to be properly treated.
His nephew, Oluwaseyi Olorode, told our
correspondent that the family decided to bring him to Aseese after he
was abandoned in his Abeokuta home by a lady who was hired to care for
him.
“When we brought him here, he could barely stand on his feet or go to the bathroom without being guided,” Olorode said.
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