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| Baribote...the crown prince of the League protected |
A lot of Nigerians have praised the decision of the illegal Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for stopping the Congress of the equally illegal (see Justice Okorowo of the Federal High Court Abuja’s judgement).
Unconfirmed sources within the NFF at a place in
Abuja had a Freudian slip where it was revealed that, some members of the NPL
Congress had met, deliberated and agreed that the only way forward was to sack
the NFF crown prince of the League, Victor Rumson Baribote.
That would have paved way for one of the people the
NFF does not want to see their face to have been pushed up to the rank of
officer to manage the League. It was a chess gambit and the stoppage order came
to rescue ‘home boy’ from disgrace.
Meanwhile, the NFF has not been able to decide what
to do in respect of the Auditors’ Report which found Baribote to have allegedly
not well managed some of the funds. He is recommended to return some monies in
the region of N30m.
How true this is remains to be found out. With this
theory being feasible and realistic, will the Congress of the NPL do what is
right and correct or be recruited to take small cash and do what is not in the
best interest of the game?
…Tricking the polity of
Nigerian football
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| Maigari, Jalla...where lies peace for our football? |
I can
reveal that if there is peace in Nigerian football, that will mean an end to
the survival of some people. To remain relevant, these set of people have to
stoke the trouble from which cash and promotion is guaranteed.
Recently, there was this report that Harrison Jalla,
President of NANF was arrested by the Police for allegedly defrauding a player
to facilitate a foreign club contract.
It was officials of Aminu Maigari’s NFF that were
busy sending the reports to facebook and twitter. It turned out that Jalla was
abducted, arrested on a Friday, meant to be kept till Monday if at all he will
be bailed.
The police did not incident the arrest. The meaning?
It was “jankara”. He was denied to take any of his phones. He got his freedom after the Police
kept him for 24 hours. He sued the Police for N50m and Ademola Olajire for
N20m.
Not too long, Jalla’s name was smuggled into a list
of “top bankers” the Police declared wanted. One question is, does the Police
no more know Jalla’s contacts? At least, they know his house and office
addresses in Abuja and Lagos. He was declared wanted in respect before a court
of law.
See the thread? On 3rd November, 2011, a
Friday, the same NFF through Chris Green, used the Police to invade National
Accord newspaper to arrest me. Before you will say uhm, the NFF goons were on
facebook and twitter. They sent e-mails to Editors to use the story.
At the Police, what is the charge? Libel and
defamation of the character of an organization. Laughable. The Police helped
them to arrest and detained my laptop and hard disk for 39 days.
Our Police, a veritable instrument of oppression and
injustice have remained ignobly available to shut down any “opposition” so long
as the price is right.
With these trend, why must people go to court to
seek justice when you can employ ‘self-help’ tools? We are nearing there.
Courts remain a reasonable and most important tool for civilized persons.
The same NFF went to court and got a judgement that
was tinted in their colour. It was widely reported in the media but the judge
CANNOT make the same judgement available. See how the judiciary is also made to
wear the jersey of corruption?
Very soon, you will find people in our football will
be wearing bullet proof cars and vests. They will employ bodyguards, thugs and
allied structures to manage our football.
Remember I once predicted the referees will be
killed with the mad way and manner the affairs in the league were being
conducted.
The following season, 2003, it happened. We are
arriving in the state of anomie. Welcome to the bedlam of the beldam of our
football.
EXTRA TIME: I have started praying and
fasting that the Aminu Maigari are able to, as planned, get a long extension in
the contempt trial in the Federal High Court Abuja so as to concentrate on
winning the African Nations Cup in South Africa.
Two, they deserve a new term since the Congress has
been ‘pampered’ enough to vote them back to office. By the time they will leave
eventually may our football not become so desolate.
Is the attendance in championships not a sign of
growth and development? Even if, as usual, we pack very old people in small
bodies to play in cadet championships while we cannot deliver in the senior
level.
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| Ikhana...bye to Falcons. Is he, like Nigerian coaches bad? |
IKHANA: I recall the day Shaibu
Amodu was finally sacked after his third missionary journey. I said it on AIT’s
Sports File, that whoever comes up after him for the next 15 years will suffer
the same pain and fate.
Can we count? Samson Siasia. Now, it is the turn of
Kadiri Ikhana. Stephen Keshi is making use of the best of average players but
the truth is, does he not deserve more quality players?
Until the day we admit that the way we go about
things now is simply wrong and will never give us any new result shall we do
what is right. Where is the nursery to train our footballers from an early age?
The failure of the Super Falcons in Equitorial
Guinea is a fact that our football is dead. Is it the coach’s fault? When we
return from South Africa without the trophy, will they sack Keshi? Does failure
of the teams reflect the technical inability of the coach? See how we have placed the right foot
into the left shoe?
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