Warri Wolves mgt lost N3.5m to robbers

About N3.5 million meant for the payment of
salaries and other outstanding arrears of players
of Delta state-owned Warri Wolves Football Club
was reportedly snatched at gun-point by
suspected robbers in the Warri metropolis last

week Friday.
SportingLife gathered that the incident occurred
when the club officials were returning from a
new generation bank. It was further learnt that
the three-man gang closed in on the vehicle the
officials were driving in and collected part of the
amount.
According to sources, team’s manager, identified
as Gordon, and the team’s media officer, Azuka
Chiamaka were attacked around Enerhen Motel,
along Enerhen Road, Uvwie council area of Delta
state.
“It happened close to Enerhen Motel, after Azuka
and Gordons had left the bank opposite Urhobo
College. The three-man gang were putting on
military face caps. Warri Wolves officials
collected N6m and N3.5m was kept in one bag,
the other bag had 2.5m kept inside Azuka’s tyre
space in his car booth, the robbers only collected
the 3.5m they saw thinking that was all”, a
source said.
When reached for comments on the
development, the General Mnager of the club,
Moses Etu, said he would not make a comment,
saying ”talk to my media officer I beg, I won’t
grant any interview, talk to my media officer”.
When asked for his media officer’s number, he
said, ”look for him, I don’t have his number, I’m
in a meeting”.
Spokesman of the team, Azuka Chiamaka, when
reached for comments, asked SportingLife to call
him back in about an hour from when he was
called, as he was in a Sports Writers’ Association
of Nigeria’s (SWAN) meeting. His number was
dead when a call was put across about one and
a half hours later.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the state’s
Police command, Celestina Kalu (SP), when
reached for confirmation of the incident, said the
command was investigating the matter.