Nigerian-born NFL star, Efe Obada has opened up about the traumatic past of child trafficking and homelessness.
26-year-old Obada says he was a victim of human trafficking at the age of 10. He said he and his older sister were abandoned in the streets of London, England.
The Carolina Panther star is hesitant to divulge many details of his past, saying he still has “deep trust issues” with strangers and that he doesn’t want to jeopardize losing his focus on maintaining his roster spot.
Obada said when he was eight-years-old his mother arranged for him and his older sister to move from Nigeria to the Netherlands, where she was living at the time. After a couple of years of living there, she decided to send the children to the United Kingdom so they could have a better life.
That turned out to be a mistake.
Obada told the Panthers team website the stranger that was supposed to take care of children didn’t carry through on the promise. Instead, he and his sister were left alone and homeless.
There, they learned to survive until eventually they were discovered and placed in foster care. They moved from home to home until Obada was old enough to make his own decisions.
“I was young and I didn’t have any say into what was happening in my life,” Obada said. “I was ignorant to it.”
Obada now knows he’s not alone. According to
http://www.worldschildren.org, 21 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking — an issue Obada hopes to tackle when he has a more solid platform in the NFL.
Obada said he’s simply not ready to talk about the details of what happened during that time of his life.
“Some of the issues, I haven’t dealt with,” Obada said quietly. “I haven’t really taken time to understand. … Right now I just want to focus on football and make the most of it.”
Obada went to college in London, where he discovered the game of football for the first time at age 22.
He caught on with the London Monarchs, the equivalent of an American semi-pro team and helped them win a championship as a tight end and defensive end. He gained some attention there and got a workout with the Dallas Cowboys while the team was overseas playing a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Obada signed with the Cowboys practice squad but was later released.
Still, that opened some doors for him and he had brief stints on the Falcons and Chiefs rosters before joining the Panthers practice squad last season. Obada was chosen as one of four players to participate in the NFL’s International Pathway Program, which began in 2017. But he’s the only one to make a final 53-man roster, which was determined on Saturday.
He’s due to earn $480,000 this season, significantly more than the $129,200 that a member of an NFL practice squad makes.
“It instilled a hunger in me that I have until this day,” Obada said of his early life experience. “And I feel like I can apply it in a game. It’s kind of going into a state of survival — that is what I do every day. I don’t take this opportunity for granted.”
Panthers coach Ron Rivera said he sees that every day in practice. The coach said 6-foot-6, 255-pound Obada’s passion and drive is one of the things that helped him earn a roster spot over the team’s 2017 third-round draft pick Daeshon Hall.
“He practices 100 miles per hour,” Rivera said. “I got some guys, they get upset with him because on Friday (during walk-through practice) he’s going hard. But you say to the guys, ‘Hey, if you came from where he came from if you dealt with what he dealt with, that’s the way you’re going to approach everything in life.
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The Jewish people deny Jesus as their Messiah and have stated that their Messiah has been identified and is waiting to be revealed. They say this man will rule the world under a one world religion called “spiritualism”.
They even printed a coin to raise money for the Temple with Donald Trumps face on the front and with king Cyrus'(who built the second Temple) behind him. On the back of the coin is an image of the third Temple.
The Bible says this false Messiah who seats himself in the Third Temple will be thee antichrist that will bring about the Great Tribulation, though the Jewish people believe he will bring about world peace. It will be a false peace for a period of time. You can watch interviews of Jewish Rabbi’s in Israel speaking of these things. They have their plans set in place. It is only years away!
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Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
Referring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. RFID microchip implant technology will be the future of a one world cashless society containing digital currency. It will be implanted in the right-hand or the forehead, and we cannot buy or sell without it! We must grow strong in Jesus. AT ALL COSTS, DO NOT TAKE IT!
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