Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has reached out to Bassey Etim, who was spotted around the Ajah axis of Lagos, filling potholes.
A clip on social media went viral showing the former Nigerian weightlifter filling potholes at a failed section of the Ado-Badore road in Lagos.
Musa, who felt compassion for the 56-year-old, had requested to reach out to the Olympian who claimed Nigeria neglected him after he sustained an injury during the 1984 Olympic Games.
Speaking with music artiste Oc_Cares, Etim, who hails from Cross River said:
“I sustained an injury, and when I came back, Nigeria refused to take care of my injury, so I had to use my life savings to go back to America in September 1985 to take care of the injury.
“But I still come out to volunteer myself to give back to my country. People are saying, ‘why should you do that? They didn’t take care of you’.”
In a chat with Sports Brief, the most-capped Super Eagles player Ahmed Musa confirmed that he sent the 1982 Commonwealth gold medalist half a million Naira.
“I just finished speaking with him now. I sent him N500,000.”
