Pay Siasia his money- Sports Minister begs NFF
Youth and Sports
Minister Barrister Solomon Dalung has appealed to the Nigeria Football
Federation NFF to pay the U-23 National team's Coach Samson Siasia. The
Minister gave the charge when Siasia paid him a visit Monday in his office in
Abuja. Siasia visited with his wife Sandra to thank the Minister for his
support to the Dream Team from Atlanta to Rio where they won Bronze in the
football event of the Rio Olympics and 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.
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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