Okpella Community during the Burial
Coach Amodu’s House in Okpella
It
was an emotional moment at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital Mortuary, Benin City as
sports lovers and relatives converged to pay their last respect to Former Super
Eagles Coach and Consultant on Edo State Grassroot Football Academy, Shuaibu
Amodu. Cousins
of the late Coach, Prince Kassim Afegbua (Edo State Commissioner for
Information & Orientation) and Barr. Ankuri Afegbua who shared their last
moments with Coach Amodu said he visited them friday morning and later in the
night, and only complained of chest pain, and a doctor checked his blood
pressure which was 140 over 100 and he was advised to take his drugs and also
stop participation in the Ramadan Fast.
Prince
Afegbua said the late coach later led the Muslim fasting prayer and thereafter
went to bed after eating and was discovered dead in his room at his G.R. A
residence at about 4am yesterday.
Former
coach of the national female team, Godwin Izilein described the death of
Amodu, just four days after the death of Stephen Keshi, as a double tragedy for
the nation while other coaches and sympathisers mourned the late 4-time Manager
of the Super Eagles and Technical Adviser of the NFF.
The
remains of the late Coach later left Stella Obasanjo for Okpella Etsako East
where he was buried according to Islamic rites.
Coach
Shaibu Amodu died few days after the death of his colleague, Stephen
Keshi.
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