By Mohammad Lawal Maikudi
It is a pride for someone’s father to rise and become the deputy president of a country like Nigeria. It is equally traumatic for a deputy president of the senate of a country like Federal Republic of Nigeria to have child suffering from a kidney disease.
It’s much more traumatic to fail in securing someone to volunteer to offer his/her kidney to save a son/daughter from within the family or community.
The case of the Ike Ikweremadu family is a big lesson for all discerning minds of how traumatic and tragic life could be.
Upon all the hustles, Mr Ike Ikweremadu has done to reach the enviable position of the deputy president of senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, life has turned sour in a bid to save his ailing daughter, Sonia.
Sonia is suffering from a health condition called Nephrotic Syndrome, where the kidney does not function properly. Her survival depends on continuous dialysis for the rest of her life or a kidney transplant.
According to Ms Ekweremadu, her family could not get a donor from within the family because of their own history of kidney conditions which led to searching for one outside.
Now, Sonia’s case has been compounded with the jailing of her parents who were ready to do the doable to save her life.
She was quoted lamenting that although she understands why her parents were convicted, she disagrees with it albeit from a “very biased perspective as their daughter”.
“I will obviously always back my parents. However, the law has taken its course and we just have to now move forward as a family,” Ms Ekweremadu told BBC.
.Sonia Ekweremadu is still undergoing dialysis and blames herself for what has happened to her parents. “I feel guilty, I feel like all this has happened because of me.”
Let suggest the Nigerian government, through the humanitarian agencies take over the issue of her treatment and the Ndigbo should scout for a donor to rescue Sonia.
