A veteran Nigerian journalist and actor, Mr. Duro Solomon, is reportedly in need of financial assistance after he narrowly survived a ghastly motor accident.

According to Sun News, the 66-year-old who walks with the aid of crutches needs N4 million for a surgery and has been in and out of the hospital since the incident happened in November 2015.

The 66-year-old actor, who now walks with the aid of crutches, said he would be grateful if Nigerians could help him.

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Narrating his sad story, Mr Solomon said a fast moving car knocked him down and dragged him into a gutter but unfortunately speed off .

The 66-year-old said he has spent all his savings and sold his properties to offset his hospital bills.

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Read his story below;

“On November 15, 2015, by 8.30 p.m., I was standing along Gwarimpa Housing Estate to get a bike home when a fast-moving car suddenly knocked me down and dragged me into a gutter, abandoned me and sped off.

“I was in that gutter for over 12 hours when a Good Samaritan spotted me and rushed me to Kubwa General Hospital. After I was examined, it was discovered that I had a broken hip, fractured arm and leg, twisted ankle and bruises all over me.

“The hospital had no facility for hip X-ray, so I was taken to Gwarimpa General Hospital, where I spent 102 days.

“My problem now is, I go in and out of hospital due to the severe pains I usually experience in my hip and knee joints. Right now, I can’t walk straight and the doctor said I need an urgent surgical operation, which will involve the replacement of my hip bones.

“The doctor put the total cost of my treatment, including the surgical operation, laboratory tests, drugs, hospital admission and others at N4 million, if I am to be treated locally and N7 million if I am to be treated abroad. I don’t even have N2,000. In fact, I have to rely on relations and friends to feed myself.”

Solomon’s medical report, dated January 10, 2018, produced by Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, and signed by Dr. Sidiq Salawu, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, noted that “radiographs showed evidence of an old LT acetabular injury with advanced secondary osteoarthritis, which needs total hip replacement.”

Mr. Solomon played the role of Imodoye in Wale Ogunyemi’s Oke Langbodo, adapted from D.O. Fagunwa’s Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale. It was staged during the FESTAC ’77.

He was also with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Kaduna, as well as the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Kaduna. He later became the head of programmes at the FRCN, Ilorin, before it was proscribed in 1985.

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His account name and number at the United Bank for Africa is Duro Solomon, 1017160156.