Video: Jackie Chandiru is not dead but she needs our help, says Balaam
Events promoter Balaam Barugahara has launched a campaign to fundraise resources to assist the former all-girl music group Blu*3 diva, Jackie Chandiru.
Earlier this week, social media was awash with reports that Chandiru had passed on having escaped from rehab at Naguru Hospital.
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There were reports that she had allegedly issued suicide notes that she was going to take her own life due to recommendations from specialists and doctors to have her left hand amputated for the sake of her life.
But in a video recorded from a private home that reportedly belongs to a one Ruth from Recovery Solutions, an NGO that took up the responsibility to take care for Chandiru, Balaam, while sitting next to the "gold digger" hit maker confirmed that the singer is not dead like the reports alleged but rather needs public support and help to be able to get out of her current situation and have another chance at life.
"Those who have been saying that Chandiru is dead...she is is not dead. She is healing but needs our help," Balaam said in part.
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Balaam said that Chandiru will now require between Shs 1.8 million to 2.5 million every month to be able to receive medical attention from specialists and called upon the public to contribute to the cause by donating what one can afford to either him (Balaam) or Pastor Wilson Bugembe of Light the World Church International in Nansana.
At the start of this year a visibly stronger and better looking Chandiru excited her family, friends and fans when she tried to make a comeback to music having overcame the addiction.
She told NBS TV's Karitas Karisimbi on Chatroom that she was determined to rediscover her music mojo.
She released a song titled "MiOraKu" and made several stage and media appearances to announce her come back.
In an interview at one of the local radio stations, Chandiru denied reports of using cocaine saying her tribulations stemmed from abuse of a prescription painkiller called Pethidine which was supposed to treat a back problem.
She said that she got addicted to the drug that was only meant to help with her back pain.
"My disorder started about five years ago at a time I had a back pain, the doctor prescribed Pethidine, a pain killer after noticing my pain. I got addicted and started getting it without prescription, I injected myself anyhow, as long as the drug got into my body. It started affecting my brain," Jackie said earlier this year.
About her recovery from the rehab, Chandiru said that it was so difficult for her as she was still getting triggers and moments where felt like she needed a needle.
Chandiru was re-admitted into rehab in July this year.
