The Nigeria
Players Union, officially called the National Association of Nigeria
Professional Footballers has lashed out at an order that players of Giwa FC on
loan at
other clubs should no longer be used by the clubs saying it is
discriminatory and against the rules of both FIFA and the league.
Giwa FC
players were loaned out to other clubs after the club was expelled from the
league by the LMC, but after a court order was made this week reinstating the
club back to the league, Giwa FC players on loan at other clubs have been asked
to stop playing for their clubs.
According to
the players Union, stopping the players from playing on loan at their new clubs
is denying the players of their daily bread and is a breach of FIFA's rules.
“The LMC
decision to exclude players procured on the expulsion of Giwa FC, from playing
for their new clubs, while the league continues without them is in itself
highly discriminatory and a flagrant breach of both FIFA statute and its own
NPFL Framework. ( See Article 3,4, 14 (i) 15 (c & e) and 4 of the FIFA
Statute and The Preamble to the NPFL frame work 2016),” read the statement
signed by the union’s legal adviser Malachy Ugwuanyi.
“The exclusion
of these players from playing matches would bear negatively on their
livelihood, as most of them will not be paid, and are technically rendered club
less by this directive.
“Whatever
events that led to this “policy summersault” was never the fault of these
players, since their contract with Giwa FC became “RES EXTINTA”.
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