Nigeria’s Minister for Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has urged the Nigeria Football Federation to pay the U-23 national team’s Coach, Samson Siasia his five-months arrears.
The minister spoke when Siasia visited with his wife Eunice to thank him 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 had ended.
Mr. Dalung directed the Secretary-General of the NFF, Mohammed Sanusi, who was also present to ensure that Siasia gets the arrears of his five-month salaries.
“Please pay him his five-month 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 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, Sanusi, however said 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 said.
