Veteran Nigerian comic actor turns Apostle, Senior Elder Moses Olaiya popularly known as Baba Sala, who is currently, battling with stroke has cried out to the public to fund his treatment abroad.
The veteran actor who once dominated the Nigerian comic drama industry some decades ago while soliciting for the financial assistance of well-meaning Nigerians for him to be able to travel out of the country to take care of his health said “I need help. Nigerians should help me. I am not dead yet, they should not let me die suffering.”
The frail looking 80 years old actor who hardly breath or walk without been supported by people, Inside sources gathered was not suffering from old age but lack of funds for medical treatment.
According to the Actor’s son Reverend Dele Adejumo most of his investments has been wrecked due to poor management , and his three-storey building in Mushin, Lagos was sold to offset debt incurred when his work, Orun Mooru, was pirated.
Adejumo while briefing newsmen said “We still have some of his recorded works not in public yet but machines that will be used to transform them to an acceptable format are not easily available. We do not have the kind of money they are charging us.
We have been told that Baba needs a lot of money for medical treatment abroad. He is suffering from a stroke and other ailments. There are many people of his age who are not like this. We are trying our best as family members. We take him to the teaching hospital weekly but he needs proper medical attention.”