WDTBAM returns to help the helpless

“Sir, is it possible to have my face back?” Those were the words of Master Great Okechukwu-Morgan after exchanging greetings during Who Deserves To Be A Millionaire’s initial visit to the Morgans. Great, a 13-year-old SS 1 student of P & P Comprehensive College, Mushin had been involved in an auto accident 7 years before then. His limbs and face were so badly affected in the incident that, even after series of medical treatment, the scars left on his face region were quite unpleasant. He was rejected by schools on the pretext that his face would scare their pupils. And the undue attention that fellow pupils always paid his physique at the school that grudgingly admitted him so disturbed him psychologically that he always felt like absenting himself from school. To help him, his parents sought assistance from the high and low in our society, from many organizations, and engaged in series of consultations to enable them raise funds for surgical operations in India, but all to no avail. Reprieve finally came his way through the MTN-sponsored Who Deserves To Be A Millionaire? He was allowed on the show to play for N10m, and with the support of his dad, Okechukwu Morgan, and TV golden girl, Adesuwa Onyenokwe, won N1m. Though a handsome sum, N1m quite was far from the required amount to handle the foreign surgical exercise, so Ultima Limited, WDTBAM’s producers, made up the financial requirement and arranged an all-expenses-paid facility for Great and his dad to an Indian hospital. Today, Great has completed his secondary education, and he is seeking admission to the tertiary institution. ‘MTN has given my son a ray of hope,’ enthused the father during a recent interaction. Great’s story is just one of the 49 beneficiaries so far recorded on the Who Deserves segment of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? that has been solely sponsored by MTN for almost a decade now. Other beneficiaries inlude Pa Akinkunmi (Nigerian flag designer), Pa Moses Olaiya ( Baba Sala), Pa Usman Pategi (Samaja),Pa Kasumu Yero (Uncle Gaga), Late Pa Sam Ibiam (first goalkeeper), Coach Peter Fregene (longest serving goalkeeper) and Lady Jane Okwaraji ( Late Samuel Okwaraji’s mother). So, who are those who’ll benefit from WDTBAM this season? Just watch out for the programme every Sunday evening on NTA, STV, DBN, MITV and Superscreen.