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.
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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