Enyimba midfielder, Ikechukwu Ibenegbu, has denied allegations that he attacked Warri Wolves top shot, Moses Etu.
Etu claims that Ibenegbu assaulted him, after his side’s 2-1 loss in a rescheduled Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Match Day 10 encounter, at the Umuahia Township Stadium.
However, Ibenegbu insists he only confronted his former boss, to know why he has not been paid his outstanding bonues, since he left Wolves.
“There is absolutely no reasons or truth behind his claim that I attacked him after the rescheduled league match against his side in Umuahia,” he told SuperSport.
“I only walked to him to know why he has refused to pay me my hard earned five-match bonuses as player of the side.
“Prior to Sunday’s incident in Umuahia he had told me pointedly that he will not pay me the outstanding bonuses should I leave the club.
“He actually pleaded with me to play for him but I told him that I have made up my mind to leave the club.
“I have it on good authority that he has paid the match bonuses in question and even the current ones to the serving players, yet he never stopped telling me that government has not released money to the club.
“So I merely walked to him to get answers for his refusal to pay me only for him to harshly ask me to leave his path.
“I insisted on an answer as he made for the substitution board…I quickly held his hand before the timely intervention of people around.
“I was shocked to hear him say I attacked him, collected his phones as well as other unnamed personal effects.
“That was all that happened. It never degenerated into an attack on anybody and the people around the scene could attest to that.
“The attempt to rubbish my name will not stop me from insisting on being paid my entitlement, I worked for the bonuses and deserved to be paid like other players.”
Ibenegbu says he is being owned for five matches, which add up to N150,000.
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