Iron Bar Bassey won a gold medal at the 1983 Commonwealth Games in Malta and also represented Nigeria at the 1984 Olympic Games in the United States
By Kehinde Okeowo
Captain of the Nigerian senior football team, Ahmed Musa, may soon come to the aid of Nigerian Olympian, Bassey Etim, who was spotted around the Ajah axis of Lagos, filling potholes.
Nicknamed ‘Iron bar Bassey’, the former weightlifter was seen at a failed section of a road along the Ado/Badore road in Lagos.
Iron bar Bassey, who won a gold medal at the 1983 Commonwealth Games in Malta, suffered an injury while representing Nigeria at the 1984 Olympic Games.
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The 56-year-old former weightlifter stated as a fallout of the injury he sustained, he had to spend his life savings for his treatment abroad, since the Nigerian government failed to come to his aid.
“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 of you” Iron Bar Bassey said.
A clip of the Commonwealth gold medalist sand filling potholes on the road which went viral on the internet later got to Ahmed Musa, who promptly requested Iron Bar Bassey’s contact.
He wrote on social media, “How can I get to him pls.”
The development led a lot of Nigerians who commented afterward to believe Ahmed Musa is about to offer the Olympian a means of escape from the difficult situation he found himself in, given his antecedents.
