About N3.5 million meant for the payment
of salaries and other outstanding arrears of players of Delta
state-owned Warri Wolves Football Club was reportedly snatched at
gun-point by suspected robbers in the Warri metropolis last week Friday.
SportingLife gathered that the
incident occurred when the club officials were returning from a new
generation bank. It was further learnt that the three-man gang closed in
on the vehicle the officials were driving in and collected part of the
amount.
According to sources, team’s manager,
identified as Gordon, and the team’s media officer, Azuka Chiamaka were
attacked around Enerhen Motel, along Enerhen Road, Uvwie council area of
Delta state.
“It happened close to Enerhen Motel,
after Azuka and Gordons had left the bank opposite Urhobo College. The
three-man gang were putting on military face caps. Warri Wolves
officials collected N6m and N3.5m was kept in one bag, the other bag had
2.5m kept inside Azuka’s tyre space in his car booth, the robbers only
collected the 3.5m they saw thinking that was all”, a source said.
When reached for comments on the
development, the General Mnager of the club, Moses Etu, said he would
not make a comment, saying ”talk to my media officer I beg, I won’t
grant any interview, talk to my media officer”. When asked for his media
officer’s number, he said, ”look for him, I don’t have his number, I’m
in a meeting”.
Spokesman of the team, Azuka Chiamaka, when reached for comments, asked SportingLife
to call him back in about an hour from when he was called, as he was in
a Sports Writers’ Association of Nigeria’s (SWAN) meeting. His number
was dead when a call was put across about one and a half hours later.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the
state’s Police command, Celestina Kalu (SP), when reached for
confirmation of the incident, said the command was investigating the
matter.
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