Questions have emerged on the whereabouts of money raised for treatment of late comedian Othuol Othuol.
Some comedians have started asking queries on the whereabouts of the funds that were raised to cover his operation.
However, Comedians in Kenya Society Chairman Ken Waudo explained how the funds were spent and dismissed screenshots shared that raised the issue.
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“We are really mad about the shared screenshots because they are not true,” Waudo said.
“There was some money that was raised when he was sick… about Sh100,000. We paid for his MRI and some of it went to pay his rent and buy food and other stuff for his house, and by the time he passed, we had already paid for the second MRI as the doctors had suggested,” he explained.
Waudo who works as a director at Churchill Show further explained that the balance was used to clear outstanding bills at Kenyatta National Hospital.
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“Mind you, from the time he has been sick to his death, we have kept on receiving contributions, and we had about Sh47,000 by the time of his passing that we used to clear bills at Kenyatta National Hospital, hire an ambulance and take Othuol to Chiromo mortuary,” he continued.
Ken explained that they raised about Sh560,000 at a fundraising event at the National Theatre and that more monies kept coming in, which facilitated the burial ceremony.
Othuol succumbed to a brain tumour on October 11th at the Kenyatta National Hospital, an operation he was to undergo was delayed by a doctors’ strike.
