Former Nigerian Olympian And Commonwealth Gold Medalist ‘Iron Bar’ Bassey Receives Half A Million Naira Gift From Ahmed Musa Of The Super Eagles.

Commonwealth Gold medalist Bassey Etim from the 1983 Malta games said to have hurt himself while competing for Nigeria at the 1984 Olympics and now lives on doing menial jobs, lands some help from Nigerian soccer international, Ahmed Musa.

According to sources, Oc Cares, a musician, described how he reached out to Etim, known as “Iron Bar,” after seeing him at a failed portion of the Ado/Badore road in Lagos.

Etim, now 56, said that he had to use his life savings to pay for his treatment after Nigerian sports authorities had abandoned him.

The Cross River state born athlete said: “I sustained an injury, and when I came back, Nigeria refused to take care of my injury, so I had to use my life savings to go back to America in September 1985 to take care of the injury.

“But I still come out to volunteer myself to give back to my country. “People are saying, ‘why should you do that? They didn’t take care about you’.

The post which went viral, attracted Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa, who requested his contact.

Consequently, the striker wrote on Instagram: “How can I get to him pls.”

In an update, sports journalist, Babajide Orevba revealed Musa had sent the former athlete N500,000.

“I just finished speaking with him now. I sent him N500,000.” Musa was quoted as saying.