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Actress Chioma Toplis Says Late Actor Leo Mezie Squandered Money Needed For His Surgery

Nollywood actress Chioma Toplis, has explained the saddening situation surrounding the death of actor Leo Mezie.

The actress confirmed his death in a post via her Instagram handle on Monday May 16th.

Toplis revealed that the actor died on Saturday May 14th after battling a kidney condition for years. He was 46.

Actress Chioma Toplis Says Late Actor Leo Mezie Squandered Money Needed For His Surgery
Late Actor Leo Mezie

 

In a recent post, Toplis alleges that the actor squandered the money donated for his surgery in 2016.

In a lengthy post, the UK based actress said that the actor had travelled abroad for the surgery in 2016, after several donations only to come back “healed”.

Leo cried Wolf when there was no wolf, when the real wolf came nobody came.

This is for people saying that Nollywood didn’t help Leo when he was alive/ill. Or blaming Nollywood for his death. In 2016 Money was contributed to his surgery including the huge some that Apostle gave him. He came to London with his then-wife for the surgery. I and another actress who was in London contacted him so we could visit him in the hospital but he did not allow us to come see him. Months later he came back and didn’t look like someone that had such major surgery.

He organised a huge Thanksgiving service at the Apostle’s church where he said that he miraculously healed. That his failed kidneys were revived in London and the doctors there said that he didn’t need surgery. People questioned who then diagnosed him and booked the surgery of which money was donated?

He continued living his normal life. News broke through Actress Chioma Okoye’s foundation that he was ill again and needed donations. Money was contributed to an extent before he asked the foundation to give him the money. The quarrel started between him and the foundation. They said it was not in their agreement, that they don’t give or contribute to individual accounts. At this point, a lot of people lost interest. Even the AGN President Emeka came into that matter then to make sure it was resolved. A lot of actors posted and solicited for funds for him too.

 

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So all these comment-seyy people (keyboard warriors) talking down on the Actors guild I believe they were not aware of the story of Leo and his health or they just want to give a dog a bad name to kill it.

Chioma Toplis at the end of her post  reveals that the actor’s wife left and relocated to the US while his family became responsible for his upkeep.

They had contributed the sum of  ₦17 million for his kidney transplant before he passed on on Saturday May 14th.

Like I said a lot of people lost interest in his case even the Apostle that helped him the most. The plain truth is that he was enjoying the money he was making out of his illness. His wife left him and relocated to the US when she got a visa.
His family and extended family took over and helped him with dialysis, and raised the N17m for the transplant which was done about a week ago. Yes, he has family members about three of them live in the US.
Unfortunately he died on Saturday and his corpse was moved to Umuahia on Sunday.
RIP Leo” she wrote.

 

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