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  • NFF commiserates with Sunshine Stars’ Management over Dosunmu’s demise

    NFF commiserates with Sunshine Stars’ Management over Dosunmu’s demise

    The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed sadness and deep sorrow over the death on Friday of the assistant kit manager of Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure, Taiwo Dosunmu, from complications arising from bullet wounds when the team was waylaid by armed robbers earlier this month.

     

    Players and officials of Nigeria Premier Football League club, Sunshine Stars FC were on their way to a scheduled league match against Bendel Insurance FC of Benin City on Thursday, 7th December when their bus was attacked, with Dosunmu hit by a bullet in the process.

     

    President of NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau said on Saturday: “This is a very sad development, but God is all-knowing and we can never question His wisdom. We appreciate the prompt response and kind gestures of His Excellency, Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Edo State Government as a whole following the unfortunate incident, even as we are deeply saddened by Dosunmu’s death.

     

    “Our prayer is that Almighty God will grant the late Dosunmu eternal rest, and also grant his immediate family, relations and the Board and Management of Sunshine Stars FC, as well as the good people of Ondo State and the Nigeria Football fraternity the fortitude to bear the loss.”

     

    A release by the club said Taiwo Dosunmu breathed his last at the Intensive Care Unit of University of Benin Teaching Hospital after a series of surgeries by consultants at the facility. The release described the late Dosunmu as “a very hard- working individual who took his job with all sense of seriousness.”

  • Attack: Sunshine Stars confirm death of Assistant Kit Manager, Taiwo Dosunmu

    Attack: Sunshine Stars confirm death of Assistant Kit Manager, Taiwo Dosunmu

    Taiwo Dosunmu, Assistant Kit Manager of Sunshine Stars of Akure, who was shot during an attack on the team’s bus by gunmen along Benin-Ore Expressway, is dead.

    Sunshine Stars were their way to Benin City on Dec. 7, to honour the Nigeria Premier Football League match-day 13 game against Bendel Insurance when the incident occurred.

    The team Media Officer, Micheal Akintunde, while confirming the passing of Dosunmu in a statement on Saturday in Akure, said he died at the Intensive Care Unit of University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

    The statement appreciated the Governments of Edo and Ondo for their support towards saving Dosunmu’s life.

    “With lot of pains in our hearts, we announce the untimely transition to eternity of our dear brother and Assistant Kit Manager, Taiwo Dosunmu, who died in line of duty by the bullets of armed bandit along Benin-Ore expressway on Thursday, Dec. 7

    “Taiwo died at the Intensive Care Unit of University of Benin Teaching Hospital on Friday, Dec. 22, after series of surgeries by consultants at the facility.

    “Taiwo Dosunmu was a very hard working individual who took his job with all sense of seriousness.

    “His selflessness at the moment of the attack saved the lives of players and other members of Sunshine Stars management. He will be sorely missed.

    “Special thanks to the governments of Ondo and Edo States as well as the entire football family in Nigeria and many others for the supports rendered during the spell of the unfortunate incident.

    “Burial arrangements of the departed will be communicated as authorised by the family,” the statement read.