The father of murdered former Golden Eaglets and Flying Eagles defender, Douglas Uzama, has disclosed to newsmen how suspected cultists tricked his son away from home and killed him at a nearby bar in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
The 18-year-old Gombe United defender
was killed on Thursday in Sakponba, an area notorious for the activities
of cultists, while on a one-week holiday in Benin.
The left-back was a member of the 2015
Golden Eaglets team. He played in the qualifiers for the 2015 CAF U-17
Africa Cup of Nations in Niger, but did not make the final squads to the
tournament and the Chile 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where Nigeria won
their fifth title.
Uzama, who is the last child of his
family, was expected to travel on January 10, 2017, to sign a deal with a
club in Argentina before he met his untimely death.
The late footballer’s father, Jacob
Uzama, said he had left home on Thursday evening to their family house,
only to be told 20 minutes later that Douglas had been shot dead.
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