As the story goes, the actor who received a chieftaincy title in
Egbonike, Anambra State and was recently made a Sports Ambassador for
the newly launch project ‘RHYTHM and PLAY’ is in serious scandal, but
this time, not in Nollywood nor power struggle, but a scam act that
involves footballers.
Emeka Ike decided to give back to the
community where he grew up, in Ogudu Ori-Oke Ojota Lagos state, by
hosting a football tournament. The tournament was called Desert Football
Tournament and was organized by Unity Football Association (UFA)
Emeka
said the main reason why he decided to host the tournament was to help
young talented footballers discover their talents, and thereby reduce
crime rate in Nigeria. He also revealed that Tottenham and Togolese
striker, Emmanuel Adebayo, has agreed to assist some stars to be
identified at the football tournament, adding that some major clubs in
Europe are also sending scouts to the tournament.
On the posters
in the streets of Lagos, it was included that Kanu Nwankwo and the
Minister of Youth & Sport, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi will be their
special guests of honor.
Each team were asked to pay the sum of #3000 for registration and 16 teams participated.
Emeka
Ike promised that he was going to reward the winner with the sum of
500,000 naira, the first runner up with N100,000; and the 3rd place
winner will get N75,000.
Aside the popular musician, Daddy
Showkey, who came to rack up the excitement of the tournament with his
presence, no other public figure was present. Six months after the
tournament we gathered that, none of the winning team has redeemed their
winning as you read this as Emeka was alleged to have totally ignored
frequent calls or text messages sent to him after he issued a bank
cheque to the guys.
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