FIFA and CAF funds, earned or given as grants, sponsorship and marketing revenue, are not meant to be used to pay emoluments and private travelling expenses and allowances of officials. There must be a forensic audit of the NFF.
“I am lucky to have left Nigeria early” – Jay Jay Okocha. The-above are the words of one of the greatest players in Nigeria’s football history. Austin Jay Jay Okocha’s words speak volumes, particularly, directly to the state of football development in Nigeria.“I am lucky to have left Nigeria early” – Jay Jay Okocha.
According to Okocha, the answers to Nigeria’s football development are simple – good facilities and grounds for training players and for playing matches, experienced and knowledgeable coaches, and a domestic football system of strong clubs and leagues that can breed and churn out great players even if the migration to Europe does not seize.
To this day, it is yet to recover from that mid-1990s mis-direction. So, Nigerian coaches that are being trained in the institute no longer have the capacity to take Nigerian football to the towering heights demanded today by our football vision and development. So, the country is stuck with abandoning its own poorly-equipped coaches and hiring third-rated foreign coaches that deplete the Federation’s resources and take the country’s football nowhere.So, Jay Jay Okocha is right.
The perks attached to their assignments were what made the big difference to their lives. Their office commanded respect and dignity that money could never buy.
Apart from funding competitions, what were the funds used for that could be described as ‘developmental’?FIFA and CAF have disbursed over $11million US Dollars to Nigeria in ‘I don’t know how many years’. The Federal Government has allocated close to N12 billion naira to the federation in less the past 8 years period.
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