Sports
By
Femi Solaja
The frosty relationship
between the Sports Ministry and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) remain
unabated following the decision of the ministry to look into the recent
allegations by some Super Eagles stars that they were shortchanged over their
win bonus for the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Algeria by NFF.
Last week the Sports
Minister, Solomon Dalung took the Glass House to the cleaner at the Annual
General Meeting of the Federation on some salient issues including the
financial dealings of the body with FIFA and the quest of the helm man's quest
to seek for an elective position in the CAF Executive Committee in the first
quarter of next year.
But yesterday, the
Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Christian Ohaa, said that the allegations
will be investigated.
"The record of the
amount released to the NFF is in black and white, nobody can shortchange the
players again and I can tell you that we will look into it, I just got the
report now and we will look into it," Ohaa said.
AfricanFootball.com had
reported on Wednesday, allegations by some Super Eagles players of being
shortchanged on their win bonus for the 2018 World Cup qualifier against
Algeria by the NFF.
Although, the NFF denied
the allegations on Wednesday, claiming they had an agreement with the players
to be paid a flat sum of one million naira for home wins.
Eagles coach at the time
NFF claimed they reached the agreement Samson Siasia according to
africanfootball.com has denied the team agreed to be paid N 1 million for a
home win.
"I don't know
anything about one million naira" Siasia said yesterday.
"The agreement was
that they will pay the equivalent of dollars at the bank rate, official rate. I
don't know about anything else."
The Super Eagles' win
bonus is $5,000 per player, which would be N1,525,000 when converted at the
official N305 to the dollar, but the players received N1 million each instead,
with the NFF claiming that bonuses for home wins was pegged at a flat fee of a
million naira, with only away wins attracting the $5,000.
Credit: Thisday
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