The mother of popular musician cum artiste manager, Ogidi Brown, has recounted how she received the news of her son’s accident in Italy.
In an interview with Delay, she narrated the emotional experience of how she heard of the incident on that fateful day while she was in church.
‘Artist Maame,’ as she is popularly known, who has since lived with her son in Italy, said an elder called her to break the news of the accident, which she struggled to process.
“When the accident happened, it was during Easter, so I travelled to my sister’s place in Milano. I received a call from an elder telling me what had happened. He told me to stand firm as he was about to give me difficult news. He then said Ogidi had an accident. I asked if he was still alive, and he said it was serious, but he wasn’t dead.
“My entire body froze. I couldn’t hear or see anything anymore. At that very moment, I felt like I needed to pee, poop, and everything at once. I was sweating profusely,” she recounted.
She continued, “I was at church at the time, so I left everything I was doing, picked a train, and went to the hospital.”
Ogidi Brown’s mother recalled the frightening condition she witnessed when she arrived at the hospital.
“When I arrived, I wasn’t allowed to see him that day. So, I waited until the next day. When I got there, they told me he was likely to die in 10 minutes, so he was airlifted by helicopter to a larger hospital.
“When I got there, it was an extremely difficult sight to behold. I kept asking if he was dead. No part of his body was working, and they had covered him with a white cloth as though he had passed. They had attached numerous machines to his body. When I saw him, I shook. He was swollen and just lying there,” she recalled.
She added that she hasn’t worked since that incident, dedicating all her time to caring for her son.
“I have never worked since I travelled abroad. My son had the accident exactly one and a half years after I arrived there,” she said.
About Ogidi Brown’s accident
Ten years ago, Ogidi Brown was involved in a horrific head-on collision with a huge tipper truck in Italy.
He subsequently fell into a coma for two weeks, and his condition was so serious that both his hands and legs became dysfunctional and numb.
Narrating the events of the accident during an earlier interview with Delay, Ogidi Brown explained that he, along with his colleagues, had left home to meet an Elder of the Church of Pentecost who was returning from the UK.
“I was with two guys who had been assigned to the mission. I wasn’t originally part of the plan, but I asked them to give me a lift to the church since they were passing through Modena to pick up the Elder in Bologna. I enjoy dancing, and I was planning to dance in church. When we got to Modena, I checked the time and realized it was too late to join the dancers. I decided to go with them to the airport to meet the Elder, and that’s where my sad story began,” he recalled.
“When we arrived, the person we met checked his watch and said the Elder hadn’t arrived yet, but that wasn’t true. He said the Elder would be there in an hour. So, we decided to head into town instead of waiting around for an hour,” he stated.
He continued, “We drove off, and I was sitting in the back. When we got to Casa Franco, we had the accident. A lady who was on the phone rammed into our car. Her car was completely mangled.”
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