Youth and Sports Minister Barrister
Solomon Dalung has charged 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.
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