The Nigeria Football Federation has said every national team player must sign up for the just-produced code of conduct for the national teams.
The first attempt in the late 1990s to have a working document for the Super Eagles failed as only a few players accepted to sign and work with it. The federation was then forced to drop the plan and relate with the players as they had previously done.
But the NFF General Secretary Musa Amadu, who spoke with The PUNCH on Wednesday, stated the position of the federation.
He said, “That should not be an issue. It is expected that when people are relating via a document, signatures have to be appended by everyone involved.”
Even though no penalty was stated should any player resist adopting it, the authors of the document fixed a clause in it that should take care of any disagreement on adoption.
The section reads, “Accordingly, by accepting invitation to the national team, players shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to abide by and adhered to the provisions and principles of this code of conduct in its entirety and the provisions of Section 24 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which states that: It shall be a duty of every citizen to: (a) abide by this constitution, respect its ideals and its institutions, the national flag, the national anthem, the national pledge, and legitimate authorities.”
Meanwhile, on Thursday the NFF released the names of national players for the African Nations Championship. The competition designed for players in the domestic leagues of African countries is scheduled to kick off on January 11 in South Africa. An NFF member who spoke with our correspondent on Thursday said that the federation was still buckling under heavy cash crunch.
He said that the federation was doing all it could to recover their money from their partner Globacom whose debt was put at N170m. The official disclosed that the money was due for payment since July 1 but attempts made to secure the outstanding money earlier in the week failed to yield result. The telecommunications company is the sponsor of the national teams.
The official said, “The situation could have been a lot easier if we had already received the grant the sports minister secured from the Presidency but you know the release has to go through the right processes before it gets to us.
“Our partner owes us and it has become very embarrassing. Our camp is opening on Monday and we still do not know how to cope. This is December and we have been enduring excuses since July.”
No comments:
Post a Comment