Kira Taiwo says some people tried to profit from Ogogo’s stage-four cancer battle, telling viewers during a TikTok live session on Saturday that they were offering help while demanding N800k, N5m, 11,000 dollars and N18,000 dollars. The accusation lands at a time when the family is still trying to find treatment for Taiwo Hassan Ogogo.
“My father is a good father. Some people are even trying to make money with us in this whole situation. Fear God. This one will come and bring solution, N800k, N5m, 11,000 dollars, N18,000 dollars. Do you want to make us broke? We are not billionaires,” Kira Taiwo said. She added, “I want to check my BP, I am not okay too.”
Kira Taiwo on Saturday
The live session gave the clearest public account yet of the strain inside the family. Kira Taiwo said the pressure was not only financial. She said she had become withdrawn, avoided social media and struggled to look at pictures of her father while dealing with his illness.
She also described the family’s conversations around Ogogo’s condition, saying she saw a message in a family group chat in which her cousin wrote that her big daddy was asking whether Taiye was going to die. Kira Taiwo said her father and his brother shared a particularly close relationship, and she added: “My big daddy and my daddy, we are the children, we don’t even know who they love more. We don’t even know if it is we who are being or themselves. It is too much. My big daddy loves my daddy too much.”
Ogogo family appeals
Recently, Kira Taiwo and Lima Taiwo appealed for help for their father on Instagram, urging Nigerians, well-wishers and medical professionals with experience in cancer treatment to step in. PUNCH Online reported that Taiwo Hassan was battling stage-four cancer, and Lima Taiwo said Ogogo’s condition had deteriorated.
Lima Taiwo also said hospitals had refused to continue treating him. The family said it only discovered the extent of his illness about three weeks earlier because his physical appearance had not initially suggested that he was seriously ill.
The contradiction is stark: the family is publicly asking for help to secure treatment, while Kira Taiwo says some people are trying to turn that same appeal into a payday. Her account makes the family’s position harder, not softer — they still need treatment, but now they are also having to guard against people who see a medical crisis as a chance to negotiate cash.
What the family is trying to secure next is still the urgent issue. Kira Taiwo said the priority was treatment for Ogogo, and until that is found, the pressure she described will keep sitting on the family, one demand at a time.
