Emmanuel Adebayor
Dear IAB Associates,
Could this really be happening to this young man in this 21st Century with all the love and care in the story?
Is this possible?
Find the story posted on Facebook by Emmanuel Adebayor, the Togolese Striker with the initials SEA(Seyi Emmanuel Adebayor)
This is his response to the accusations by his relative that he is under a spell by an "alfa".
Read his story below;
SEA, here is another part of the
story I have kept inside since. Today I feel the constant need to let it out.
If I share my stories, it is because I believe every story comes with a lesson.
And the lesson is for anyone that is reading this.
This is about a brother who
keeps saying today that I am not a good support for our family. His name is
Rotimi Adebayor. At the age of 13, he did something very bad. He and I know
what he did. Because of that our parents had to send him to a village far from
the big city.
When I started to be successful in
football and I went to Togo for vacation; at that time one of my mother’s
friend came from the village to visit us. As she explained how Rotimi was
suffering in the village, I immediately asked them to bring him back into the
city. As soon as he came back, I made sure I put him in school. For me that is
normal.
In 2002, I went to play the AFCON in
Mali and I had the huge privilege to swap my shirt with Marc-Vivien Foé. May
his soul rest in peace. When I got back to Togo, I put that shirt in a secure
place. My brother found a way to steal that shirt and sold it.
When I moved from Metz to Monaco, we
reached an advanced stage in the Champions League and we played against Real
Madrid. It was one of most beautiful day of my life because I was lucky enough
to get a signed shirt from the football legend Zinedine Zidane. As I brought
that shirt back to Togo, my brother still found a way to steal that shirt and
sold it.
When I was in Metz, I was earning
about €15,000 a month. I wanted to get something unique for my mom to thank her
for all she did for me. I wanted to make her happy. So I decided to take an
amount worth 3 months of my wages and I bought her a Cartier neckless for about
€45,000. Rotimi and his friends Akim(@Yam Freedom) and Tao (@Sao Tao Oyawole)
made a plan and stole that precious neckless. They sold it for about €800.
When my mom and I found out, my
mother asked me not to bother because he is the younger brother. Despite the
situation, I would like to take this same occasion to wish all the mothers out
there a Happy Mother’s Day!
In my house, I have a storage room
where I keep some of my belongings when I travel back to Europe. I am the only
one with that key but my brother managed to get a master key that was able to
open every single door in the house. He frequently stole drinks and other items
from that room.
After all this we kept saying “blood
is thicker than water” and we moved on. Therefore, I decided to take him where
I started my football in France. I brought him to a great football academy in France.
You already know how this story ended. He stole cellphones from many of his
teammates and they sacked him from the football academy.
By the way, after I published the
first story about him, he called me to say that he did not steal exactly 21
phones. He claimed that the number was lower than that. Still…Is that
acceptable? He also added that I should be happy that he stole drinks and other
items from my storage room. I asked him why and he replied: “Because I am your
brother”.
Jacques Songo’o who is now a retired
Cameroonian footballer also had his son in the academy and he was a good friend
of Rotimi. Let me add that he was part of my development as a footballer and he
always gave me good advices. I was in Togo on my days off when Songo’ocalled me;
he sounded very angry. He explained to me how my brother stole his son’s PSP.
When I asked my brother why he did
that, he argued that he forgot it in his bag. How can you forget someone else’s
device in your bag and travel with it from France to Togo? Since that day, my
relationship with Songo’o changed and he has become pretty distant with me and
my family.
One day, my mom called me early in
the morning when I was still in bed. She told me that Rotimi has gotten a Visa
to go to Dubai so he can play football out there. He had to leave that day with
his friend Kodjovi (@Denilson de Souza) who was in the same situation. It was
either they went that day or the Visa would be suspended.
I asked one of my guys at the time
(@Agui Mozino) to go find tickets for my brother and his friend. We could not
find any economy class ticket on that day so I had to get them both first class
tickets. After all, it was an opportunity for him to make his own career in
Dubai.
Only 4days later, Rotimi went back
home. He explained how the lifestyle in Dubai was not made for him. He said he
wasn’t free to do what he wanted to do because it is a strictly Muslim place.
He couldn’t drink, party as much as he wanted or kiss girls in public.
The part 3 is coming out soon and it
will be about the man that calls himself the father of the family @Kola
Adebayor A.K.A Lion of Judah.
