Players and officials of Nigeria
National League side, Osun United Football Club of Osogbo were attacked by
armed robbers on Tuesday night at the Ore/Ondo/Akure Expressway.
It was gathered that the team’s
driver was the most brutalized in the incident as he is at the emergency unit
of the General Hospital in Ondo-town.
Most of the players are nursing
various degrees of injuries among whom are goalkeeper Ayo Ojo, Olabisi
Olagunju, as they were butchered by the robbers.
The Omoluabi Giants in a
32-seater coaster bus which had 28 people including 18 players alongside
technical crew led by Duke Udi, were returning to Oshogbo from Calabar where
they lost 2-0 to Unicem Rovers in a rescheduled Week 14 contest played on
Monday at U.J Esuene Stadium, Calabar.
It was gathered that the team bus
developed clutch problem on their way having left Calabar early.
Coach Udi, while confirming the
incident, said the unknown gunmen attacked the team bus with three (3)
kilometres to Ondo-town and all their money and phones were carted away.
The ex-international said they
cheated death as the six (6) gunmen butchered them with cutlass with no place
to hide.
“We’re on our way to Oshogbo from
Calabar, before we ran into the hands of the robbers who barricaded the
Ore/Ondo/Akure road. One of them forced the door open and they were asking for
money and valuables. We (players and officials) suffered varying degrees of
wound as the robbers raided us.
“We thank Almighty God that there
was no life lost. It could have been worse. I still thank God for sparing our
lives,” Udi said.
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