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SAMSON Siasia, coach of Under 23 Nigerian football team, has begged those who kidnapped his mother to set her free to enable him focus on winning a ticket to next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Siasia said Ogere Siasia, 72, his mother was abducted in the village of Odoni, Bayelsa State, by three men on motorbike.
Ogere was the only one at home taking care of her visually impaired husband when the kidnappers struck. Siasia said: “Right now I am confused, from the story I got, three men on motorbike stormed my parents’ house in my village Odoni in Bayelsa State, shot sporadically into the air before taking my old mother away on a bike.
“What do they expect from me? I don’t have money, I am right now on national duty, and need all the time to concentrate on this very important national task, so I beg them to please release my mother so that I can concentrate on this task of qualifying the U23 national team for the men’s football event of the Rio Olympics.”
He disclosed that the matter had been reported to the police.
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, on Tuesday, November 17, appealed passionately to kidnappers to release the old woman.
Amaju Pinnick, president of the NFF, said: “This is quite disturbing. We are just preparing for a crucial 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match, and the U23 boys are already in The Gambia for a pre-Cup of Nations training camp. Why this?
“All we can do is to appeal to the kidnappers to free Samson Siasia’s aged mother. Samson is on a critical national assignment presently and the last he needs is this kind of distraction.”
— Nov 30, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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