Nigeria: Sport Ministers Orders NFF to Pay Siasia Five Months Salary
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The Minister of Youth & Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has waded into the payment brouhaha involving the coach of the national male U-23 side, Samson Siasia and the Nigeria Football Federation, asking the NFF to pay Siasia.
Dalung made the plea when Siasia and his wife, Eunice, paid him a visit in his office in Abuja, yesterday, to thank him for his support and inform him that his contract with the NFF had run its course.
Dalung directed the NFF Secretary-general, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, who was also present to ensure that Siasia got his five months’ salary arears.
“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 five 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 sympathise 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 called on the NFF.
Blame TSA – NFF
In his response, Sanusi assured that efforts were being made to pay Siasia his outstanding salaries, but for road-blocks mounted by the Treasury Single Account (TSA).
“We have held meetings and we are waiting for the money. The money is already there in our account but we need to regularise 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.
Also, the NFF’s director of Comunications, Demola Olajire, blamed the TSA.
“The NFF admits owing Siasia, but I believe you must have read about certain money from CAF ear-marked to pay him and his assistants. It had to go, first, into the TSA, because of the FG’s policies. Siasia should be able to credit the NFF for getting his team friendly matches, invitational tournaments and the camp in Atlanta.
“If Siasia does not appreciate anything at all, he should be able to appreciate the job he had to do for 22 months and that he was paid for 17 of those months. He will get his five months’ salary arrears (NFF Management is also being owed five months).
“NFF has never meant evil for him,” Olajire insisted.
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