How My Daughter Died Over Hospital Bill, Buried In Wooden Crate – Ibrahim Chatta Recounts Loss
Nollywood actor, Ibrahim Chatta, has revealed that he lost a child due to his inability to afford hospital treatment and had to bury her in a wooden beverage crate.
In a now-viral video originally shared by Abiola Orisile Events & Parties TV on YouTube, Chatta opened up about the incident while speaking with colleagues.
“My first child is not Malik. The first child I had died,” he began, recounting how he desperately sought financial help to save her life.
“She was taken to the hospital, and money was needed for her treatment. I trekked from Ijora Badia, passed through Orile, Itolo… places I used to hawk ‘puff-puff’.
“I went through Shitta, Lawanson, Stadium, Costain railway till I got to Makoko, yet I couldn’t get any money until the child died.”
Chatta described the moment he was forced to lay his daughter to rest in the only option available at the time — a wooden beverage crate.
“We buried her in a crate of Coke, the olden days wooden crate of Coke,” he recounted.
The actor also spoke fondly of his only daughter, Awawu, whom he said he named after his late mother.
The actor shared how deeply he cherishes her, explaining that his love for her stems from the pain of his earlier loss.
“When I went to Dubai and bought a diamond anklet for Awawu, her mother was upset, saying I should have bought it for her, who gave birth to the child. But I told her, ‘This is my only daughter. I had one before, but she died.’
“She was buried in a wooden crate of Coke. All of them just started crying, and I was cooking in the kitchen. They’d never heard the story before then,” the actor narrated.
Chatta, who currently has three children, expressed his longing to expand his family.
“I love all my children. God gave me three, but I want to have more children. You see, Awawu was named after my mother because she was born after my mother’s death. So I call her my mother. There’s nothing she wants to buy that I won’t give her.”
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