CREDIT: Brila FM
Here’s what happened to the private jet:
“I was at Besiktas, The Jet story came when my club was to play a very crucial match in Istanbul and I was in Nigeria to see my mum who was sick at the time.
“The president of the club tried all he could to get me back so he had to send me a private jet which landed in Kaduna to come and pick me. After several clearances in different countries, we landed in Istanbul played the match and won.
“The president of the club who was a very young man and my friend too asked me if I wanted to have one and I said why not. Then he promised to call his friends who ran airline business in America. He did and said to me ‘ you guys can discuss’.
“All I need do was have my name on the airline and at any point, I can call the aircraft to pick me to anywhere in the world. I got in contact with them and we got talking. At the end of the day, it was mine. It was all to the Glory of God,” Amokachi stated,” he said.
On the expensive maintenance, he said: “That was why I gave it back to the company as soon as I stopped playing football because it was like suïcïde. I wasn’t feeling it that much when I was making money.
At least, I was sure my account would be credited on a weekly basis but when it wasn’t coming as it used to, I had to give it back to them.
“Just to fly over a country to get clearance is money, to take care of it is money, to leave it overnight is money. Believe me everything about me is the grace of God because if it wasn’t His grace I’ll stay without a dime. If I had left the plane, it would have been seized at the end of the day.
“I gave it back to them when I realized I couldn’t continue in the year 2000/01 through a clean negotiation and everybody was happy,” Amokachi added.
Credit: Brila FM
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