Chioma Ajunwa, Atlanta 1996 Olympic gold medalist and first black woman to win a gold medal at the games in long jump, has revealed that she still hasn’t received the house she was promised by the then Lagos government.
Speaking on Sunday afternoon on ‘The Chat’, a Channels Television programme, Ajunwa also spoke on how she had to retire early because Nigeria did not take care of her when she had injuries.
“I thought that my country would have taken care of me, but they never did,” she said.
“When I came back I kept on going to the athletic federation, then the ministry; they never helped me. If my country had come to my aid, I wouldn’t have retired when I did.”
In 1992 when she was banned from competing for failing a drug test, despite maintaining her innocence, it was the Police that paid for the drug tests she was to take to make her eligible to compete in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
She revealed that the Nigeria Police was the reason she ignored calls to compete for other countries and instead returned to Nigeria.
“I came back to Nigeria to do police work, to appreciate them, and to give back to the police that made me,” she said.