Wife of the late Super Eagles midfielder, Thompson Oliha, Ajara Mohammed-Oliha, has lamented that both the Federal Government and the Kwara State Football Academy have abandoned the family he left behind 3 years after his demise.

Ajara told The Guardian yesterday, that she and her 12-year-old son, Aisosa Oliha, have been 'struggling' to survive since her husband’s death in June 2013.

She accused the Kwara State Football Academy (where Oliha worked before he died) of 'not redeeming' the financial pledge of N1 million to the family three years after his burial.

She said, "On the day of my husband's burial in Benin City, officials of Kwara State Football Academy were in attendance and they made a promise that they would support our upkeep with N1 million.

"Till this moment, they have not redeemed the pledge and it is disappointing. "My husband truly served KFA and I have traveled to Ilorin on three occasions because of the money.

"The only language you hear all the time is the cheque will be ready soon."

"Before my husband died three years ago, one thing he kept saying was that he did not want to die before getting the Abuja house the Federal Government promised them since 1994. "He was always drumming it that he wanted to get it when he was still alive because Uche Okafor and Rashidi Yekini died without getting theirs.

"It is three years now, and we have been squatting from the house of one relation or friend to another because we have no place to go to. This is very unfair. "I will appreciate if the Federal Government can fulfill its promise by making the Abuja house available to us.

"I learnt that some of the players have gotten their houses, so why is my husband's own not available? "I am making a special appeal to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola to help us out.

"My husband was Fashola's friend in the All Stars football team, and I want him to use his position to deliver the Abuja house, not only for the sake of Oliha, but for all members of the 1994 squad," Ajara stated. Midfielder, Thompson Oliha died in June 2013 in Ilorin, after complaining of malaria.

Meanwhile, an official of Kwara Football Academy, identified only as Perpetual, disclosed that a representative of the state government actually made the pledge of N1 million during Oliha's burial in 2013, adding that KFA has made several efforts to get the money for the family, but to no avail.