Ex-Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has launched a football academy in prisons to help secure the release of inmates.
Yobo on Saturday, August 27 was at the Ikoyi Prisons where he launched his new initiative with his Joseph Yobo Foundation in collaboration with Sisters Cities Vocational/Rehabilitation Centre and the Nigerian Prisons Service in the latter’s football academy project, “Football Stars Behind Bars’’.
“I have never been to the prisons before but on getting to Ikoyi Prisons, I realised the need to give hope to someone,” Yobo said in his statement.
“The Joseph Yobo Foundation is ready to do everything within its means to grant bail to as many as possible that are awaiting trial, especially those in the facility’s football academy.
“I am happy with what is going on in this facility. I have never been here before but when I got here, what I saw jolted me.
“I thought I will see persons looking very sad, rushing to go out but rather, I saw them very happy, cheerful and looking very hopeful.
playYobo is launching the initiative through his Joseph Yobo Foundation in collaboration with Sisters Cities Vocational/Rehabilitation Centre and the Nigerian Prisons Servic
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