Human Right Reality Radio and TV Talkshow, 101.1 FM Abuja, has offered to fly former Most Valuable Player at the 2009 FIFA U17 World Cup, Sanni Emmanuel to Germany to revive his dying football career.
This was made known on Wednesday morning, during the radio station’s popular programme, Brekete Family, and was monitored by GoalBall.
The CEO who doubled as the presenter of Brekete Family live show, Ordinary Ahmed Isah announced and promised to raise funds for the surgical operation in any oversea country that is capable delivering an excellent surgery operation on the former Golden Eaglets star’s injured leg.
In 2010, after his award-winning performance at the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, it was reported that Emmanuel had trials at both Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League.
While at Tottenham Emmanuel was even offered an extended stay.
During the interaction on the programme through a phone conversation, the player said he is looking for money to complete his surgery operation to be paid to a hospital in Surulere, Lagos.
“The doctor said the surgery will cost N2.7 million but one of my teammates, Ogenyi Onazi has paid the sum of N1.4 million into a hospital in Surulere.
When he was asked whether the hospital has the capacity to do a successful surgery, he said: “according to the doctor, they have the capacity to do it.”
Responding to him, Ordinary Ahmed as he's fondly called stated: “We will raise funds to take you to either Germany, France, India, United Arab Emirate. And concluded by asking Sanni Emmanuel to choose any of the countries and that he is not going to allow any doctor to use his leg to perform an experiment.
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“Start the process for the hospital to return some reasonable amount out of what has been deposited, we will start our own process on how to fly you out of this country for a successful surgical operation.” Ahmed Isah concluded.
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