{"id":1800,"date":"2019-09-07T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2019-09-07T07:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:05:28","slug":"encounter-with-samson-siasia-forgotten-so-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/encounter-with-samson-siasia-forgotten-so-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Encounter with Samson Siasia \u2013 forgotten so soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To forget may be man\u2019s greatest weakness.<\/p>\n

We always forget. Even with the challenges, we face on a daily basis, plus the endless vicissitudes of life, \u2018forgetfulness\u2019 seems to be a big challenge.\u00a0\u00a0I recall\u00a0Chioma Ajunwa\u00a0<\/b>and the unfortunate circumstances surrounding her first ban by the IAAF on the eve of the\u00a0Barcelona Olympics\u00a0<\/i><\/b>in 1992. Following the announcement of the ban, the Nigerian sports authorities, without hearing her side of the story, condemned her to \u2018hell\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0Thereafter, life went on normally for everyone else but her, as if Chioma never existed in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0Yet, here was a young Nigerian girl that had just run and recorded the fastest 100 metres race in the world that year, and was poised to win an Olympic medal for her country, suddenly sentenced to a ban from all sports on the eve of her possible greatest triumph.\u00a0 Nigeria did nothing to help her, even with a simple enquiry.<\/p>\n

Chioma\u2019s life could have ended the day the ban was announced, mostly because she was not given a chance to tell her own story.\u00a0 Alone and humiliated, she carried her cross until the elements came to her rescue and rose to her defence.\u00a0 It took 4 harrowing years but, in the end, she was \u2018rewarded\u2019 with the ultimate prize in all of sport.\u00a0 Still partially affected till today by the tar of that ban decades ago, she stands alone on a pedestal unmatched by any Nigerian (even African), living or dead, since that eventful evening in the city of Atlanta, during the 1996 Olympic games, when her story was re-written in Gold letters, in a life-time best jump that can no longer be ever forgotten.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Samson Siasia\u2019s present plight reminds me of Chioma\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

Until two weeks ago, Samson was a football hero, the third-highest goalscorer in Nigeria\u2019s history at the national team level. He had been struggling to make ends meet since he was relieved of his national teams\u2019 assignment. He was going through tough times without a regular job when his mother was kidnapped several weeks ago, and he had to face the new \u2018impossible\u2019 situation of raising a ransom demanded by the terrorists that kidnapped her.\u00a0\u00a0With that noose of survival tightening around his neck, the ultimate humiliation (a \u2018death\u2019 sentence) came tumbling down from FIFA, a body that Samson does\u00a0not ordinarily have\u00a0any direct dealings with, slamming him with a life ban.<\/p>\n

I had him and the memory of Chioma at the back of my mind, knowing how sportspersons are disrespected and disregarded in this clime.\u00a0 I was willing to give Samson the benefit of the doubt and find out directly from him the only thing that I needed to resolve in my mind, an unanswered but very important question – why did he not respond to FIFA\u2019s written enquiry?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Last week, I was in Abuja to see Samson.\u00a0 Just as in the case of Chioma, I wanted to peer into his eyes and find the truth in his words.\u00a0\u00a0The man was badly traumatized.\u00a0\u00a0He was in a state of disbelief.\u00a0\u00a0Like me, Samson is an Olympian, sworn to certain ethics and conduct.\u00a0\u00a0He told me his truth, and I choose to believe him.\u00a0\u00a0I wondered after all, why it is so easy for people to dismiss the matter the way most did as if FIFA is infallible?\u00a0 I had to put myself in Samson\u2019s shoes to appreciate his simple and very innocent response.<\/p>\n

I have been in football for almost 5 decades. The only time I have ever dealt directly with FIFA, in all that time, was when I lodged a protest concerning the integrity of the local elections into the Nigeria Football Federation, and they responded to my petition.\u00a0 Beyond that, players and coaches have no business or a relationship with FIFA requiring any form of communication.\u00a0 If FIFA wants to contact me now, it makes sense that they would either go through my national football federation or through the email address they must have received from me several years ago, a Hotmail account that I discarded many years ago.\u00a0 Once in a very blue moon, I visit the box and find thousands of \u2018useless\u2019 mails that I never even bother to read or respond to.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the challenge of my generation. We pretend to be very IT savvy yet engage very little. I know some well-known footballers that would not even bother to engage social media.\u00a0 If Samson saw FIFA\u2019s mail I believe him that he would have responded.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 Thereafter, there was nothing else for me to consider.\u00a0 His job was limited to coaching Nigeria\u2019s national teams.\u00a0FIFA had not listed any match involving Nigeria as being fixed.\u00a0\u00a0Or could Samson have fixed a match not involving his own team?\u00a0\u00a0So, if no Nigerian match is listed anywhere as having been fixed, how come Samson would be accused of match-fixing allegations?<\/p>\n

If the charge is only that he did not respond to their mail, then, surely there is a big mistake somewhere.\u00a0\u00a0FIFA, I believe, was in haste or in anger when it took its decisions to fine and ban Samson Siasia.\u00a0\u00a0Even the letter that was written to him requesting for his response to the allegation clearly states that failure to respond would attract a penalty of at least 10,000 Swiss francs and a possible maximum\u00a0<\/b>sentence of a\u00a0two years ban<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s what the letter said.<\/p>\n

So, what justifies a\u00a0life ban<\/b>?<\/p>\n

Well, that is FIFA\u2019s headache to deal with Samson\u2019s advised move to take the case to the\u00a0Court of Sports Arbitration\u00a0<\/b>and to FIFA itself.\u00a0 What I learnt looking him straight in the eye resolved my only confusion.\u00a0\u00a0My problem now is how Nigeria and Nigerians are taking the matter outside of FIFA.\u00a0\u00a0Samson has been left in the lurch to carry the can of his \u2018sin\u2019, condemned and abandoned to his fate.\u00a0 Even his kidnapped mother\u2019s situation has now receded in serious attention, forgotten and consigned to the back burners of public interest.\u00a0\u00a0This is another classic Chioma Ajunwa scenario unfolding before our very eyes.\u00a0\u00a0The least we can do is look again at the issues, and not dump Samson Siasia in the heap of our amnesia.<\/p>\n

I need to remind us all that our national hero is going through the most horrifying, extremely painful and difficult experience of his life.\u00a0\u00a0Nigerians must not forget or abandon him now.\u00a0 I remind us all again that the design of the world order, of which FIFA is a very powerful and influential component, is never so that the Nigerian would thrive or succeed.\u00a0 For all we know, Samson may be a victim of such prejudice.\u00a0\u00a0So, rather than forget him and his mother, who is still in captivity, let us stand by him and help him!\u00a0\u00a0My prayer is that the elements take charge quickly as they did in 1996, and re-write the story of Samson Siasia. May the moment of this greatest challenge become the moment of his greatest triumph.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Femi Otedola \u2013 Thank You!<\/b><\/p>\n

By the time you are reading this, it would be the fourth day since Peter Fregene was wheeled out of surgery for a lifesaving operation performed by a renowned Nigerian neurosurgeon based in the United States of America. Dr Olawale Sulaiman was flown in for that purpose.\u00a0 At the time I am writing this on Thursday morning, I have just spoken with Peter on his bed in the Intensive Care Unit of Reddington Hospital in Victoria Island, Lagos, one of the most expensive and best-equipped hospitals in Nigeria, where he is recuperating after his surgery that was pronounced successful.\u00a0\u00a0The big story is that since Peter Fregene entered Reddington for treatment several months ago, he has not set his eyes on his benefactor, the man who is footing the entire bill!\u00a0\u00a0This same man also intervened in the known cases of Christian Chukwu and Sadiq Daba both of whose overseas hospital bills he took care of. Now, this.<\/p>\n

The man does not want any of the noises associated with his generous philanthropy.\u00a0 He wants no attention or even acknowledgement for his gifts of life to the people he helps.\u00a0\u00a0I use this opportunity to express, on behalf of all generations of Nigerian football players, our most sincere and deep gratitude for your intervention, help, support and unbridled philanthropy to Mr Femi Otedola.<\/p>\n

The Creator of the universe will reward him abundantly.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To forget may be man\u2019s greatest weakness.<\/p>\n

We always forget. Even with the challenges, we face on a daily basis, plus the endless vicissitudes of life, \u2018forgetfulness\u2019 seems to be a big challenge.\u00a0\u00a0I recall\u00a0Chioma Ajunwa\u00a0and the unfortunate circumstances surrounding her first ban by the IAAF on the eve of the\u00a0Barcelona Olympics\u00a0in 1992. Following the announcement of the ban, the Nigerian sports authorities, without hearing her side of the story, condemned her to \u2018hell\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0Thereafter, life went on normally for everyone else but her, as if Chioma never existed in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0Yet, here was a young Nigerian girl that had just run and recorded the fastest 100 metres race in the world that year, and was poised to win an Olympic medal for her country, suddenly sentenced to a ban from all sports on the eve of her possible greatest triumph.\u00a0 Nigeria did nothing to help her, even with a simple enquiry.<\/p>\n

Samson Siasia\u2019s present plight reminds me of Chioma\u2019s story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-football"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"\nEncounter with Samson Siasia \u2013 forgotten so soon? - Mathematical 7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/encounter-with-samson-siasia-forgotten-so-soon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Encounter with Samson Siasia \u2013 forgotten so soon? - Mathematical 7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To forget may be man\u2019s greatest weakness. 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We always forget. Even with the challenges, we face on a daily basis, plus the endless vicissitudes of life, \u2018forgetfulness\u2019 seems to be a big challenge.\u00a0\u00a0I recall\u00a0Chioma Ajunwa\u00a0and the unfortunate circumstances surrounding her first ban by the IAAF on the eve of the\u00a0Barcelona Olympics\u00a0in 1992. Following the announcement of the ban, the Nigerian sports authorities, without hearing her side of the story, condemned her to \u2018hell\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0Thereafter, life went on normally for everyone else but her, as if Chioma never existed in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0Yet, here was a young Nigerian girl that had just run and recorded the fastest 100 metres race in the world that year, and was poised to win an Olympic medal for her country, suddenly sentenced to a ban from all sports on the eve of her possible greatest triumph.\u00a0 Nigeria did nothing to help her, even with a simple enquiry. 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