Sports Minister Scolds NFF For Owing Siasia, Yet Employs Foreign Coach

Minister of Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung has scolded the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for refusing to pay the five months salaries of the U-23 National team’s handler Samson Siasia while it employed a foreign coach that would be paid in dollars.

“You are owing him five 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.”
The minister who spoke Siasia paid him a visit in his office in Abuja on Monday, directed the Secretary-General, Dr Mohammed Sanusi 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.

“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 ordered.
Siasia had visited the minister with his wife, Eunice, to thank him for his support to the Dream Team from Atlanta to Rio, where they won a bronze medal in the football event of the Rio Olympics and to officially inform him that his contract with the NFF has ended.
The Secretary-General of the NFF, Dr Sanusi said that efforts are 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. [myad]