Contrary to insinuations that Sierra Leone paraded Nigerian-born players against Eagles on Wednesday at the Teslim Balogun Staduim in an international friendly match, Daily Sunsports can authoritatively report that the players in question have no roots in Nigeria.

In an interview with Obi Metzeger, they vehemently refused to be linked with Nigeria insisting that they are from Sierra Leone.

Obi said in his native dialet the name Obi which translates to king for male and hinted that it is a common name in his community.
When this reporter reminded him that the translation of his name also means the same thing in the Igbo-speaking part of Nigeria, he waved it off, saying it must be a co-incidence. “ I was born a Sierra Leonian and I have no other country”, he started. “My parents are still alive and they have not said otherwise.

“No one has told me that we migrated from Nigeria and I won’t accept that even if I am told.
“The name Obi is a common name in my tribe. I am from an ethnic group in the capital Freetown.
“It means King and I suspect that my parents want me to be a king that was why they named me Obi.
“It is interesting to hear that an ethnic group in Nigeria bears the same name and it means the same thing for them just as my people and I will like to visit the people somedays in my life.

“But the issue of me being a Nigerian is out of it. I’m a free born of Freetown, he remarked.