Nollywood actor, Prince James
Uche, who has been battling with Diabetes, Blindness, High Blood
Pressure and kidney-related disease for about two years now is dead.
The actor died yesterday afternoon
while on his way to carry out his routine dialysis in a private
hospital in Festac, Lagos.
The Chairman, Lagos State chapter of
Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Mr. Don Pedro Aganbi confirmed
confirmed the sad news to Vanguard.
He
said, the late Prince James Uche was due to travel to India
this Saturday for a kidney transplant before he met his untimely
death yesterday. “He sa gotten his visa to travel to India this
Saturday. But only few days ago, he started having complication and
had to give up this afternoon, while he was being taken to the
hospital for his routine dialysis,” he said.
Aganbi described Prince Unche's demise
a rude shock to the industry, adding “we were all hoping that he
would recover soon since he was due to travel to India for a kidney
transplant.”
The actor’s conditioned is said to
have worsened last Sunday, as he has been unconscious since then.
Footage emerged online of the actor in his unconscious state.
Prince Uche who has been in the
hospital for about a year and seven months reportedly required N2.6
million to pay his hospital bill and N11 million for kidney
transplant and eye surgery in India.
It would be recalled that Governor
Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State through #SavePrinceJamesUche team led by
Rita Edochie and Chioma Okoye the donated N3 million as well as
approved N10 million as the state’s contribution to save the
actor's life last month.
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