Former Super Eagles player and 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medallist, Daniel Amokachi, has commended the Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, for fulfilling a 30-year-old promise made to members of the Nigerian football team that won gold at the 1996 Olympic Games.
Amokachi said the governor’s gesture of allocating plots of land to him and fellow Atlanta ’96 gold medallists, Garba Lawal and Emmanuel Babayaro, as well as naming streets after some of the members of the victorious squad, had restored their confidence in government.
The ex-SuperEagles player spoke on Tuesday while inspecting the ongoing reconstruction of the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna alongside other football veterans.
Recalling the promises made to the Dream Team after their historic triumph in Atlanta, Amokachi said successive governments had failed to redeem most of the pledges made to the players.
He said, “When we won the Olympics gold medal in 1996, the Federal Government and state governments made several promises to us, but 30 years down the line, most of those promises were never fulfilled.
