Late Enugu Rangers Player Ifeanyi George Receives N20m
The family of late Enugu Rangers star player, Ifeanyi George, was presented an insurance benefit cheque of N15m to N20m on yesterday J21st of July, in Enugu. Enugu Rangers Team Manager Amobi Ezeaku told newsmen about the amount given to the late player’s family just after the club made the announcement in a statement on Twitter on Monday.
Early this year Ifeanyi George and fellow teammate Emmanuel Ogbu was involved in a car accident, along the Benin-Agbor Expressway in Delta State, while on their way to Lagos after the domestic league was suspended due to COVID-19. According to Enugu Rangers, they said in a statement that: “The management is set to present the insurance benefit cheque to the family of Late Ifeanyi George on July 21, 2020, in Enugu. It’s the first of it’s kind in club football in the country.”
Rangers Team Manager, Amobi Ezeaku, who did not disclose the specific amount to be paid to George’s family, urged other teams to emulate the 2016 NPFL champions by putting the welfare of their players first. Amobi said: “I can tell you that the amount is between N15m and N20m.” This is the first time such is happening in Nigeria it has never been heard anywhere in the league that a club gave such amount of money to the family of their late player, Amobi encouraged other clubs to follow in the action of the Enugu Rangers team.
He also said: “N15 to N20m is a lot of money but we cannot quantify in monetary terms the impact of Ifeanyi’s loss to the club, the family, and to his friends. “This is Rangers being professional and hopefully this money will go a long way in catering for his daughter’s education and family.”
