Former NSMQ ‘shark’ now lives in pain due to Bipolar disorder, needs help

Your presence here is sufficient,” he said after seeing the team.Leonard expressed his appreciation after a brief discussion on his entire life.

Leonard’s JHS/SHS days

Long before he left senior high school, he was popularly referred to as ‘Dr.’ Ningwie Leonard Lanyeli, due to a childhood ambition to become a medical doctor.

But after senior high school, misfortune and pain dashed this childhood dream, as Leonard dropped out of school.

Medical reports describe his condition as Bipolar Disorder II.

33-year-old Leonard said – he was born for a greater purpose to impact lives and be a change agent, but his life has been full of pain.

Leonard completed Ganaa Memorial Junior High School where he did excellently well.

So we called him ‘Dr’,” one of his senior schoolmates, Emmanuel Belig, now Pharmacist at the Wa regional Medical stores said.

According to records, Leonard was a brilliant student who excelled academically at senior high school.

“Leonard was among the team of students who represented St.

He had an A1 in all subjects except biology, English, and Social Studies, which were B2, B3, and B2.

Leonard’s University Education

His admission to the University of Cape Coast was thwarted because his parents could not afford the high tuition at the time.

Leonard was then admitted to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology the same year, this time to study for a doctor of optometry.

“I gained admission to read medicine at the University of Cape Coast at the cost of GHC4,100 a year and my father was a teacher who couldn’t afford to pay the fees, so I opted to read Optometry (Dr.) at KNUST.”

During his first four years at KNUST, he performed admirably.

I have done a lot of work.”

Leonard’s life caught off guard

But what has since appeared as a permanent condition caught Leonard off guard in 2012.

Ninwie Gladys, Leonard’s 60-year-old mother, stated that one of Leonard’s university friends took him to his home town and he returned with the condition.

“I had a hint that a friend at the university took Leo to his home town and he came back with this condition,” she said.

Leonard was forced to take a break from his university studies in order to seek medical attention at the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital in 2013.

I tell people I am sensible and can teach a crowd,” Leonard said.

Leonard later returned to the university in 2014 to continue his studies, but his stay was brief.

Dr Kuutiero indicated that, after a successful rehabilitation process, Leonard was re-admitted to the University and performed well at the end of the semester exams.

Both his senior high and university friends are stunned by the turn of events.

Many of Leonard’s classmates are medical doctors, engineers and other professionals.

Leonard, given his circumstances, should have been one as well.

Another colleague of Leonard’s, Dr .Patrick Seidu described his current condition as disheartening.

“It is disheartening seeing a young man who is very brilliant and could be very resourceful to Ghana in such a condition.”

Former Biology tutor at St.

Francis Xavier Junior Seminary said Leonard was in contact with some of them until he got admission to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Sixtus Bayaa described him as intelligent and could have been one of the best Scientists or Medical Doctors in Ghana if he didn’t suffer the medical condition.

Gladys, his mother, says his son’s predicament worsened when his 57-year-old father, Ninwie, died in 2011.

Leonard’s father died on August 13, 2011.

I really know how to help.”

Friends, family and colleagues believe Leonard was born great, and that greatness is still alive if he receives immediate intervention.

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