Youth and Sports Minister Barrister Solomon Dalung has come out to plead with the Nigeria Football Federation to pay the U-23 National team’s Coach Samson Siasia. The Minister gave the charge when Siasia paid him a visit yesterday in his office in Abuja. Siasia had visited with his wife Eunice to officially inform him that his contract with the NFF has ended.
Barrister Dalung directed the Secretary-General Dr Mohammed Sanusi who was also present to ensure that Siasia gets the arrears of his five month’s salaries. “Please pay him his five months’ salaries. They said he has resigned but he just said that his contract expired after the Olympics. His contract expired but you are owing him 5 months’ salaries and you have gone to employ a foreign coach and will pay him in dollars.
It means you don’t like yourselves and nobody will sympathize with you. Please spare me the stress of talking about this salary issue or going to war with you on it. Please pay him and other coaches their outstanding salaries” Dalung said.
The Secretary-General of the Nigeria Football Federation Dr Sanusi however said that efforts were already being made to pay the coaches their salaries.
“We have held meetings and we are waiting for the money to drop. The money is already there in our account but we need to regularize the TSA procedures before we can claim the money. We are almost through with the process. Once that is concluded, we will pay them” Sanusi assured.
We don't value our own, we always appreciate foreigners over our own.
ReplyDeleteWhy did it have to accumulate for 5 months? Is the Secretary General being owed 5 months of his salaries or allowances? That is the impunity in the system. We owe our indigenous coaches 5months salary and yet we want to recruit 3rd rate expatriates to be paid in scarce foreign exchange. Senseless people with inferiority complex!! What we need are expatriates to administer the NFF and not an expatriate coach. An expatriate coach would not have performed better than Siasia but we no the embarrassmentthat the NFF caused regarding accommodation at Atlanta and the flight to Rio.
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