After due consultations with family and friends on
Saturday, 19th July 2025, at Auchi, Edo State, at 12:30pm, the Abuja and
Lagos-based businessman Peter Omoh Dunia, a philanthropist par excellence, also
of Etsakor extraction as Kadiri Ikhana in Edo State, took action.
Dunia, a bosom friend of this writer and patron of the
Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria (PFAN), led by Tijani Babangida
(MON), was contacted by yours sincerely when I read a piece by Chief Segun
Odegbami on Ikhana's health late on Tuesday, 15th July. I immediately put a
call across to him that night; he was outside the country but gave me his word
that he would help.
As the Saturday meeting was going on, Peter Dunia made
an instant call to the Turkish Hospital management to expect Coach Kadiri
Ikhana on Monday, 21st July 2025. As we speak, after a series of tests, Coach
Kadiri Ikhana was admitted at 6pm yesterday for better and further medical
attention.
This is a clarion call to all Nigerian sports
authorities, both at the federal and state levels, that they must wake up to
their responsibilities and duty of care to Nigerian sports men and women,
current and retired. No senior government official, either at the state or
federal level, would have used the Irrua Specialist Hospital as a final medical
destination concerning any ailment.
Having secured private sponsorship for Coach Kadiri
Ikhana's health, the Professional Footballers Association of Nigeria (PFAN) has
initiated a move to ensure the National Sports Commission, the Nigeria Football
Federation, and the Edo State Government support Coach Ikhana's welfare and
post-medical rehabilitation.
Prince Harrison Jalla
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