Nollywood actress and art curator, Chidera Adiele, has cried out for help over her younger brother’s seven-year battle with drug addiction and mental illness
Adiele made the appeal in a video posted on her Instagram page on Tuesday, narrating how her brother’s condition began in 2019 when he gained admission into the University of Lagos and worsened months into his first academic session in 2020.
She said her brother had been in and out of at least seven psychiatric facilities over the years, including New York Psychiatric Hospital in Abeokuta, the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, a private facility identified as Concept One, another in Gbagada, a hospital in Benin, and most recently, the 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, also in Yaba.
“He was in the psychiatric ward for three months and they recently asked me to come pick him up because they said they couldn’t keep him there indefinitely. The max they can keep a patient there is three months,” she said.
According to her, her brother was discharged a week before the video was recorded and was subsequently taken to a ministry she identified as Zion Ministry, in a bid to explore spiritual intervention. She said his condition deteriorated further after he returned from the ministry the previous night.
