Mikel pays condolences to late Nasarawa’s Chineme Martins

Former Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel took out time to share his condolences and sympathy with  the family and friends of  late Nasarawa United’s Chineme Martins.

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Rest In Peace, my prayers and thoughts are with your family and friends 🙏🙏🙏

A post shared by Mikel Obi (@mikel_john_obi) on Mar 9, 2020 at 8:01am PDT

The defender  suddenly slumped and died while playing for Nasarawa United against Katsina United an NPFL match Day 23 encounter on Sunday at Lafia City Stadium, Lafia.

Reacting on the unfortunate incident, Mikel took to his Instagram handle, to mourn the young defender.

“Rest in peace, my prayers and thought are with your family” accompanied with a crying emoji on the picture of Martins.

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THE AMBULANCE! So this was the vehicle stationed as ambulance for a professional match day in the Nigerian league organized by LMC. Even at that, when emergency came, they needed to push it in an attempt to start it. So Chineme Martins died just like that because of the incompetence of the arbiters of our league. Honestly thought we had gone way past this stage. As usual, the NFF has issued a statement that from now henceforth, all matches in the league will be suspended until clubs meet the requirements required of a professional club in terms of medicals et al duly certified by the match commissioner before kick off. So it took this ugly incidence to remind these clowns of what was already inscribed in the statutory requirements for clubs to adhere before you could be registered in the first instance. Need i weep anymore? Everything jaga jaga. Rest On Chineme Martins Till the resurrection day. #nff #nigerianfootball #caf #lmcnpfl #chinememartins #ripchinememartins #lafia #nasarawa #katsinaunited

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Interestingly, Martins fell unconscious, unopposed, during the second half of Nasarawa’s league match against Katsina United, but was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital after delays in taking him to the medical facility.

An autopsy is expected to be  carried out to determine the cause of his death.