Dalung Begs NFF to Pay Siasia

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Samson Siasia

Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung has charged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pay the U-23 National team’s Coach Samson Siasia.

Dalung gave the charge when Siasia paid him a visit on Monday in his office in Abuja.

Siasia had visited with his wife Eunice to officially inform him that his contract with the NFF has ended.

SEE: Siasia Resigns As U-23 Head Coach

The minister 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 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 said.

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 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,” he said.

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