By Emmanuel Iriogbe,Abuja
Indigenous mobile company, GLOBALCOM, has come to the rescue of ailing Nigeria’s longest serving goal keeper, Peter Fregene.
Fregene of the Green Eagles fame it will be recalled has been down with stroke which hasade him to be bed ridden for a long time.
According to a statement made available to Penpushers online media by one time Green Eagles right winger Segun Odegbami, GLOBALCOM has taken the initiative of bringing smiles on the face of Fregene and his enduring wife who has stood by her husband through thick and thin.
In the statement; “It was a very special day in the life of a long-suffering former international football player. For over two decades, even with some medical intervention funded by the Lagos State government under Babatunde Fashola, about 10 years ago, Peter Fregene’s health condition went from bad to worse.
“He has been spending his days and nights either on a wheel chair or in his bed, his withered body now riddled with bedsores.
“Peter ‘Apo’ Fregene, has suffered and been in truly bad shape for too long”
He further disclosed in the statement that the Goalkeeper’s wife of many yrars had a few months ago, raised an alarm on social media, of his state captured in a horrific picture that pricked the conscience of all Nigerians.
“Unfortunately, Nigerians may have been suffering from ‘humanitarian-fatigue’ with the unending appeal to the public for support for retired international athletes suffering in thè twilight of their lives.
“Only one organisation called to enquire about the great former Nigerian football hero, and what could be done to alleviate Peter’s situation, ON A PERMANENT BASIS.
“Two days ago, ‘divine messengers’ quietly descended and landed in Sapele, in the rented, one-bedroom apartment where Peter Fregene and his wife live in ceaseless pain and penury. They came loaded with ‘manna’ from heaven”
Furthermore, “In a well-thought out program of rehabilitation, the messengers delivered all physical essentials needed in a new home to make living and life more comfortable for Peter Fregene – furniture, bed, television set, generator, and so on and so forth. The Fregenes apartment is currently undergoing repainting and complete upgrading.
“On top of all that, the family will be given a very tidy monthly allowance, more than enough to meet the needs of the family, through his devoted wife who has stayed by Peter’s side through the decades, giving up her own life so that Peter will live and not die.
“On the occasion, officials of the national telecommunications giant came to deliver these life-sustaining gifts.
“Peter, who had worn a hopeless, forlorn- look on his face for so long, had a transfiguration. His face lit up. A huge smile returned and started to dance on his face. His weakened limbs started to quake. His lips uttered audible words for the first time in years – they were of gratitude to his Creator in Heaven and to his benefactor here on earth”
Mathematicak Odegbami as Segun was known in his playing days said he felt xompelled totshare thetlife saving stoey with nigerians against the wiahes of globalcom.
He on behalf of all Nigerian sportsmen and women, thanked the Chairman, board, management and staff of GLOBACOM for its uncommon shower of love and compassion on a retired Nigerian football hero who diligently served Nigeria for 2 decades, from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, the longest in Nigeria’s football history.
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