‘FG determined to unravel cause of Lawal’s death in Uganda’

The Federal Government has started moves to unravel the circumstances leading to death of Uganda-based Nigerian player, Abubakar Lawal, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Secretary General, Mohammed Sanusi, has said.

Lawal, a former the Nigerian U-20 team, Flying Eagles, dies in Uganda on Monday under mysterious circumstances.

Initial reports said that Lawal 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.

Omary has since been taken into custody by the Ugandan Police.

Sanusi said yesterday that the NFF 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’s death.

“We 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.

“The circumstances surrounding the player’s 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.”
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.

Suubi responded, “it is a sad situation. I also have received divergent reports on the incident, but I have delegated somebody to go and find out what