Olu of Warri Hails Amaju Pinnick for Donating Volleyball, Handball Courts to Hussey College

The Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has commended the immediate past President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Melvin Pinnick for donating handball and volleyball courts to Hussey College, Warri, Delta State.

Amaju Pinnick is presently a serving member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as well as FIFA

The donation was done under the auspices of BROWNHILL Foundation, a Non-governmental organisation which is a brainchild of Amaju.

It was glitz and glamour, excitement and camaraderie as the Olu of Warri, led a pack of eminent personalities to the official commissioning of ultra-modern Volleyball and Handball courts.

Heralding the arrival of the Olu of Warri at the ceremony were traditional dances, in an atmosphere of pomp and pageantry, with the aroma of royalty radiating at the proceedings of the day.

The commissioning ceremony was a gathering of the “who-is-who” in the academia, in politics, business and government. The national anthem, that of the Itsekiri ethnic extraction and Hussey College, as rendered, brought back nostalgic feelings of our existence as a people bound with one destiny. 

In his speech, the National President of Hussey College Old Students Association, Elder Emmanuel Ogidi, said he is challenged by this donation of sports infrastructure by Brownhill Foundation, with Amaju Melvin Pinnick as founder.

Elder Ogidi, who is also the National Vice Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP said further “Even when some of us have influenced projects to Hussey College, Warri in times past by virtue of the positions we have occupied in Government, none of us have done anything in our individual capacities as Amaju Pinnick is doing “.

In his remarks, the Olu of Warri, stunned the august audience, by going down memory lane to reveal that his biological father, a late Olu of Warri was an alumnus of Hussey Vollege,  who wanted him to attend the college, but which was not to be, by a twist of fate.

Commending Amaju Pinnick and his Brownhill Foundation Group for giving back to the society, the revered monarch called on other alumni to emulate this kind gesture. 

The Olu was of the opinion that there are other old students of Hussey College out there, who might be wealthier than Pinnick, but in his words:” this young man has just decided to etch his name in gold and in the sands of time “.