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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