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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