Pay Siasia His Five Month Arrears To Avoid Trouble – Dalung Tells NFF


The Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung has asked the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to offset Coach Samson Siasia's five month arrears. The Minister gave the charge when Siasia paid him a visit Monday in his office in Abuja.

A statement signed by the Special Assistant (Media) to the minister, Nneka Ikem Anibeze, disclosed that Siasia in the company of his wife Sandra called to thank the honourable 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.

The statement said: ''Barrister Dalung directed the Secretary-General, NFF, 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 NFF Dr. Sanusi however affirmed that measures were already being put in place to pay the coaches their salaries.

In his words: ‘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’

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