How I wished, he was the one moulded by Rochas. So many mixed feelings as I got to Mama’s residence in Abakpa, Enugu.
Each time I recite our National Anthem, see some realities on ground with respect to the labours of our heroes past, my heart bleeds. There is actually a missing link somewhere.
To serve our fatherland with love and strength and faith yet for 30 years, a man who died in active service is yet to be recognized. What if Sam decided to take up his Legal practice, his story might have been a different thing all together.
Unarguably, the most educated footballer. At 25, he already bagged his PhD in Law.
Oh, what a way to serve a nation and what a nation to forget a patriot. The 77th minutes on the 12th of August 1989, right at the National stadium in Lagos was a major shocker as we lost a legend whose medical was cleared in Switzerland, some days before the match against Angola.
The boy Sam to his mom on arrival to Nigeria, ” Mom I will see you after the match before I return to Swiss”. Till this day, Mama is yet to see Sam.
For me Sam’s death was a result of negligence, no oxygen to revive him at the point of call etc but the after effects is still telling on Mama whose life was spared when she heard the breaking news which almost took her life, but broke her into partial stroke.
Mama is a retired teacher, and all she is asking for is to see her son again as he promised but this time immortalized.
Mama deserved to be taken care of and I call on well meaning Nigerians to show her some love as the mother of our symbol of PATRIOTISM.
We demand that late Sam should be institutionalized and become a study in our schools.
