THE OMO OLOORE STORIES STORY 3: THE PHONE IS TRULY MINE

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STORY 3:THE PHONE IS TRULY MINE

While I was serving as the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, every time Shooting Stars of Ibadan also known as 3SC had a football match at home, I was always at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Adamasingba to watch the boys and cheer them on and I will sit in the general stand with our supporters. We’d sing and dance and cheer together. I never sat in the VIP section. 

Also, I never moved around with security all through my time as Commissioner – that way, it was always me and the supporters. Usually, too, whenever a game was over, the supporters would escort me to the car and then I’d leave.

 

On one of those match days in 2012, we went to the stadium as usual and we had a good time. The game ended and the supporters surrounded me as it was the usual manner. As we moved out of the stadium; I touched my pocket and I realized that my phone (A blackberry priv) was gone! I stopped in my tracks and whispered to someone near to me: “my phone has been stolen”.

 

Quickly, information circulated around – ‘won ti ji phone Commissioner’. I was rooted to that spot; I was utterly confused about how my phone had got stolen. In my mind, as I stood on that spot, I had no hope of recovering that phone. My mind had begun to mourn all the invaluable material and data on the phone that I’d never be able to get back.

 

Then suddenly a few meters away, we started hearing a small commotion – a group of guys were beating a young guy and they were dragging him towards where we were. They got close enough and one of them said, “Honourable Commissioner, e gba phone yin – Commissioner, here is your phone”. 

The guy they were beating was the one who stole my phone and he was obviously one of the supporters. They said the guy had gotten to the gate and was about to step out when they caught him. How those guys knew the boy was the one who stole the phone despite the massive crowd of supporters still baffles me till today.

 

That was how I miraculously got my phone back. I instructed that they let the guy go, after all he had been dealt with before they got to where we were.

 

That became a major encouragement for me and I learned a profound lesson from it – when people truly like you, they would move mountains for you.That was a massive show of love!

I still have that phone carefully kept in my office till date😂😂😂😂

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