We Wont Return $390,000 Donation – Mikel Insists

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Deolu
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Rio Olympic bronze winning team led by Chelsea star, Mikel Obi are heading a collision course over the $390,000 donated to them by a Japanese fan.
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On Saturday, the NFF issued a statement quoting president Amaju Pinnick as saying it was mischievous to say they planned to use the donation from the Japanese plastic surgeon Katsuya Takasu to offset mounting debts.
Rather, they insisted that they were merely conducting an integrity test on the donation and the donor.
The Japanese fan issued two Citibank cheques – $200,000 in favour of coach Samson Siasia and $190,000 in favour of Mikel.
“We have resolved that no matter what, we will not surrender this cash to the NFF, the team was quoted to have told africanfootball.com.
“Mikel has insisted all of us will get our share of the money. That we should not mind what the people in the NFF are saying.
“He will make available this cash when he comes for next month’s AFCON qualifier against Tanzania in Uyo.”
A team meeting has already resolved that both players and officials will receive equal amount of the cash with Mikel himself agreeing to give part of his own share for the chief coach (Siasia) to get more than the rest of the squad.
It was further gathered that the sharing formula agreed was a flat rate for the 22 players (18 accredited players and four alternate players) and 10 officials.
Japanese plastic surgeon, Takasu had travel from Tokyo to Brazil to watch Nigeria beat Honduras 3-2 to win the bronze on Saturday.
“I had travelled from Tokyo prepared to reward them anyway, and to watch them win the bronze inside the stadium was very fulfilling,” he said.
 “This team showed resilience and fought the hardest to achieve success, despite all their problems – some people would have given up but they didn’t.”
“In everything we must always let people understand that they are appreciated and not just in football but generally in life,” said Takasu.
Source: BreakingTimes

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10 COMMENTS

  1. The government should give double this amount to these gallant soldiers that fought hard to bring this bronze medals rather than claiming to be conducting some kind of stupid integrity test on donation by the Japanese surgeon. Enough is enough of this brouhaha about this gift. The boys deserve very much

  4. I so much love and adore Mikel, you have really shown us the texture of a good leader* as it seems to be NFF and whatever wasn’t supportive and deserves NO damn reward. No penny should be given to those set of corrupt souls* you want to eat where you did not saw (olodo’s) when it comes to money that’s when you will see them with their big big eyes and fat stomach’s** kudos to Mikel you really did well

  5. I thank God for the Dream Team for moving against the wind and coming home with a bronze medal coupled with Mr Takasu’s hand shake. But the players should know that “the reward for hard work is more work.Any word from NFF should be thrown into the waste bin of history.Once more,congratulation

  6. Only God can deliver a Nigerian from the love of money. But, is that cash real? If it’s really real, I support the guys to eat all and should give nothing to the shameless idiots that call themselves officials. They are not sad for not being able to get the gold real olodos. I greet Mikel and the entire team weldon.

  7. Integrity test? Did they really say integrity test on a free will donation from a fan across many continents??
    There’s corruption, and there’s greed but this is a whole different level of shamelessness from these he-goats called NFF. Just imagine how they can’t stop dragging the name of this nation in d mud over “dash” money given to d boys who suffered even b4 getting to Rio&all thru d tourney. Shame on you Amaju Pinnick.. DOUBLE SHAME!!!