Most Nigerians who have seen famous comic on-screen character, John Okafor, otherwise known as Mr. Ibu, in real life will concur that he is a skilled humorist and one of a couple Nollywood specialists that are actually removed for the parts that they play in the motion pictures.
Okafor has, in this way, possessed the capacity to demonstrate to his fans that he doesn't just live by making other individuals to giggle away their distresses; he is additionally diversion embodied.
However, the on-screen character, in a meeting with our reporter, additionally uncovers that notwithstanding his dedication to making individuals to chuckle, he has had cause to be miserable, much sharp, on a few events.
On one of such, Okafor had a grievance with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba. He was bitter to the point that he practically initiated a court activity against the administration of the healing center.
Relating what happened, he says, "The matter was really between the Pediatric Department of the clinic and me.
It was in 2011. My significant other and our two-year-old child had been abducted. After I paid the payoff requested and they were discharged by the ruffians, I came back to Lagos from Enugu.
"At that point on January 18, 2011, my child fell sick. He was determined to have aggravation of the liver. The clinic proposed that he ought to be checked.
In the meantime, I was educated that I could remove my child from the doctor's facility to complete the output somewhere else.
Be that as it may, the same individuals later declined, saying that everything must be done in the clinic since he was too feeble to be in any way taken outside.
"Before long, I was informed that there was no power in the doctor's facility. When I inquired as to whether there was no standby generator, they said there was no fuel in it.
I offered to pay for fuel just to be informed that the man that worked the generator was not around. When I cleared out the spot and got back later, the man still had not returned.
At that point I was encouraged to compose an application and to submit to the administrator office."
In the wake of composing the application, Okafor found that there was no one to get and treat it.
While he was holding up, he was informed that his child's condition required blood transfusion.
The on-screen character did everything conceivable to guarantee that the sickly kid was given treatment at the doctor's facility, however his endeavors were futile.
At long last, the young man surrendered the apparition.
"That was the way my child kicked the bucket. Later, one of the specialists came to me and, without feeling for me, inquired as to whether I could discharge my kid's body to him so they could cut it open and utilize it to instruct other medicinal understudies.
At that time, I craved submitting murder without precedent for my life.
"When I told my legal counselor what happened at the healing facility, he was stunned. He said it was significant.
I let him know that I was prepared to indict the healing center administration and sue it for $100 million in harms in light of the fact that my child's passing was created by the heedlessness of the experts whose obligation was to spare his life.
In any case, my legal advisor exhorted me to give up".
Pondering his profession, Okafor says he has been freely humiliated by fans at various times and in a few spots.
"I rapidly excuse them since I was the one that searched for inconvenience in any case. On one event, some person came to me and said, 'Ibu, in view of what your jokes have done to me and my family, I guaranteed God that anyplace I meet you, I would slap your face.'
I let him know them to proceed. At that point he slapped me so hard that I couldn't see obviously for two hours," he says.
Mr. Ibu clearly savors his status as a well known and generally agreeable Nollywood performing artist. It is far fetched that, given a decision, he would have surrendered representing whatever other profession.
Going through a world of fond memories, the on-screen character uncovers that he used to be a boxer and a Karate specialist. Conceding that lone a couple people know about this part of his own history, he says, "I honed Shotokan Karate for a long time and I was an individual from the Karate Federation of Nigeria.
I happen to be the principal teacher that was showing Karate in national government schools in Nigeria."
The on-screen character, most likely, cuts the photo of a man getting a charge out of an ecstatic marriage. Be that as it may, inquired as to whether he ever had a sweetheart before he got hitched, he answered, "I had issues with my associations with ladies.
Every time I had another sweetheart, other men would dependably take her from me. At whatever point I went gaga for a young lady, some person would grab her from me. Be that as it may, I don't fear any feeling of misfortune since I wedded the best lady on earth.
My better half is a previous lovely lady. She was the champ of the 2004 Face of Imo magnificence expo."
Yet, Okafor says that even now that he is joyfully hitched, ladies have not quit coming to him for a date. "I don't charm them, however. They are the ones pursuing me. That is a piece of the value I need to pay for being well known."
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