Former PMAN president Mustapha Amego down with cancer

A Former president of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN ), Mustapha Amego is down with cancer.
According NET’s investigation, Amego who has been based in the US for many years is currently been treated at the Intensive Care at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore,
Maryland, US.
But it appears the doctors have given up on him, and his family wants Amego’s friends to pray for him.
A Facebook post published on his account by his wife and daughter Fatemmasays ’ …
Mustapha has been battling cancer for a few years. Some of you may not know not have known he was sick, and this news may come as a great surprise.The doctors have done their best; but now it is in God’s hands. We ask you send him prayers and love.’
Speaking with Nigerian Entertainment Today, Amego’s American wife, Marie said doctors have exhausted all options and
have now left his fate to God.
‘He has Colon cancer and he has been on chemotherapy and drugs for over two and half years now. The doctors say there’s nothing more medically they can do about
his case and so we are just depending on the prayers of everyone to keep him alive’, Marie told our correspondent.
In the 1980s, Amego was very popular in the entertainment scene in Nigeria. He was a popular musician and host of the popular weekly music-dance show, Sunday Rendezvous . Amego was also
commonly referred to by the moniker, Funky Mallam because of his trademark jerry curled pony tail hair-do. It was indeed refreshing at the time to see a
young dude from the North looking so trendy.
He rose to become the president of PMAN in 1993 and served till 1996. After his successful tenure, he relocated to the US where he worked with the Discovery Channel as Content producer, Editor and
Tricaster operator. He also produced
Nollywood movies including Double
Shift’ 1&2 starring Jim Iyke , ‘Ladies in the City’ (co-produced with Desmond Elliot) and ‘My American Nurse’.