AFN and certification of their coaches. Fresh scandal

Solomon Ogba, AFN President

Former Nigerian international, Adewale Olukoju, a friend of this blog wrote me some days ago. I tender his comments verbatim: "I think the AFN idiots just top themselves. Could you believe that when Pat told them to explain the fake position (Welfare Officer) they gave her, they told her she has to prove to them that she is a qualified coach. So Pat emailed a copy of her certificate to them and I think that shut them up. What I would like to ask them is: are all the coaches  (Ogba's friends minus Coach Momah) they are taking to the games have to prove they are all qualified coaches too?"

 
AFN'S FRAUDULENT CHARACTER CONFIRMED:

When I came up to state the banal quality of persons on the board and management of the AFN, some pals felt I don't just can’t see anything good in them.
Think of it, the media officer, Duro Ikhazuagbe, was initially named for Maputo alongside a non journalist as media officers. I complained about how the AFN wanted to take to Maputo a non-journalist in the name of journalism, the final response was that Duro was dropped. Some other dropped persons found their way to Maputo!

The AFN fraudulently brought in drug couriers, university drop-outs, non-coaches as "coaches" of the national team to various championships while asking certificated and trained coaches to submit their certificate for surety. The coach, Pat Itanyi, submitted her certificate. Did they do the same to their hordes of dirty characters they called "coaches"? This is a shame.

Some of the heads of the federation has carelessly said it in some places that the said qualified coach, Itanyi, was dropped from the national team because she is “stubborn”. For you to know your rights and stand that it should be respected means you are stubborn?

No wonder they brought in some charlatans as coaches. Heard that Gabriel Opuana told a colleague of his in America that he graduated from the Katsina State University. Uhm! I wish he stated the year of his graduation. When did he entered the university? Whereas, he told me that he is a Fine Art graduate.

He lied to me he is a level three coach forgetting that I had already investigated and revealed he registered on the 6^th June 2011 for level one coaching programme where I provided the link to the website where the information was sourced.

All the unprintable things they said about the very best of coaches in Nigeria remains indelible. Some of such coaches they deserted for fakes, drug couriers, drop-outs and unemployable ex-athletes include Innocent Egbunike, Chief Osheiku, Pat Itanyi and a host of others.

No wonder they had to employ three American coaches for the team they took to Daegu and still came shamelessly 37th in the World championships and are still praising themselves for having tried. Did they consider that African nations who had no pedigree in athletics had medals while we were medal-less. Uhn!