PAY US OUR AFCON MATCH BONUSES

Pay us our AFCON match bonuses and allowances, Super Eagles players cry out

One of the best kept secrets in Nigeria football is now in public after four players of the Super Eagles informed award winning whatsapp platform, NSM Media, that the Nigeria football federation NFF, is yet to pay them a dime from their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations outstanding match bonuses and allowances

The players, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they have contacted the secretariat of the Nigeria football federation through the team secretary, Dayo Enebi who kept telling them that the NFF has since sent the monies to the central bank whose duty is, to deposit the money into individual accounts.

"After the loss to Tunisia in Garoua, the team secretary collected our account details and assured that our match bonuses and allowances will be paid directly into our accounts. That has always been the practice so it wasn't strange to any of us. It is five months since AFCON and we are yet to get any alert. We have made frantic efforts to know where our money is and all they keep telling us is that the money will be paid soon. We don't know when that will be and our patience is waning. That is because, we are beginning to suspect foul play since most of our colleagues have received their full entitlements.

"We have decided at this point to petition the honorable minister of youth and sports Sunday Dare on this matter because it is now obvious that someone is sitting on our money", another player added.

All four players have been invited for post AFCON matches involving the Super Eagles and have vowed not to stop honoring National team invitations while stressing too, that they will not rest until their outstanding match bonuses and allowances are paid.

I personally knew about this two weeks ago from some media close on ground with matters to do with Nigerian football and NFF.

These people cannot change, see no reason why we will allow people with no single idea of how management and administration of foorball is to continue to run our football in Nigeria.