{"id":21795,"date":"2025-02-28T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kick442.com\/?p=21795"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:52:34","slug":"breaking-nff-intensifies-search-for-truth-regarding-abubakar-lawals-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kick442.com\/fr\/breaking-nff-intensifies-search-for-truth-regarding-abubakar-lawals-death\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: NFF intensifies search for truth regarding Abubakar Lawal\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Nigeria Football Federation has continued the search for clarity concerning the tragic death of former Nigeria U20 player, Abubakar Lawal, in Uganda on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, reiterated on Friday that the country\u2019s football-ruling body has kept its feet on the throttle regarding the matter, and will not relent until the truth is unveiled on the cause of the player\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal died on Monday morning, with initial reports saying he died in a motorbike accident, and later in a car crash. Hours later, the Ugandan Police stated that he actually died after falling from the third floor of a hotel at the Voicemail Shopping Mall in Bwebajja. He was said to have been at the mall to visit a friend, Tanzanian lady Naima Omary, who moved into the hotel a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Omary has since been taken into custody by the Ugandan Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not relenting in the search for truth. The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed the determination to dig out the truth, and ourselves have reached out to our counterparts in the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) to help us find out the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circumstances surrounding the player\u2019s passing remain steeped in mystery, but we are committed to doing the little we can to shed light on it and help the Federal Government in its quest for truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the unfortunate incident on Monday, Sanusi put a call through to his opposite number in FUFA, Edgar Watson Suubi, to call for urgent assistance in getting to the root of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Suubi responded that \u201cit is a sad situation. I also have received divergent reports on the incident, but I have delegated somebody to go and find out what happened, and then we\u2019ll be able to send you a copy of the report from either the Police, the Medical or any authority that\u2019s in the position to give us a satisfactory answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NFF followed up Sanusi\u2019s phone conversation with a formal letter, in which it disclosed that \u201cthere has been so much outcry in our country with regards to the mystery of his death, and I have decided to reach to you, as a colleague, to help shed light on how the player actually met his end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very sad situation for us in Nigeria football and for his family, and it is important to get these facts to enable some closure on his tragic passing. We will also like to know what arrangements are being made to get his remains back to his family in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawal was a member of the Nigeria squad at the FIFA U20 World Cup finals in New Zealand 10 years ago, and was a key player for Ugandan elite division club Vipers FC before his demise.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation has continued the search for clarity concerning the tragic death&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,139,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-football","category-featured","category-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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