Amaechi bombshell: NFF is most corrupt institution

Amaechi

*Dissolve it and damn FIFA

By Olajide Fashikun

Governor of Rivers State, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has described the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), as the most corrupt institution in the country and called for the immediate dissolution of the board.
Speaking at the Presidential Sports Retreat with the theme: "Harnessing the Potential of Nigeria's Sports Sector: From Playground to Podium", Ameachi said that NFF's dissolution was the key to Nigeria regaining its lost glory in football.
In his paper titled "State government and sports development" at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, venue of the retreat that, it was the deep-rooted corruption in the Federation that has discouraged governors from funding sports.
Amaechi who is the chairman of the Nigeria Governor's Forum said, it was the enormous corruption that prompted members of the Presidential Task Force in which he chaired, to recommend the dissolution of NFF and damn the consequence of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) banning the country for two years.
"We recommended that to stop FIFA from banning us we should withdraw from international competition for two years. Let us come back home and start afresh. We will perform better later. Today, what you have is an NFF that is corrupt". 
He said governors are capable of funding sporting activities if there was transparency.
He said it was not right that public should be mismanaged as currently being done by some sports administrators.
"Those who administer public should do so judiciously and transparently," he said.
He said what was sustainable was for the country to revive primary school sports and for the country to train qualified coaches if it wants to see result.
The governor recalled that one of the recommendations of the presidential task force was a total overhaul of the coaching crew in football.
"We said that clearly the present coaching crew does not have what it takes to coach. We said they should be sent abroad for training while we hire a foreign coach to handle our team for a while just like Westerhof did".
Amaechi said "part of the problem is the implementation. Mr. President you must insist on implementation else we will gather again in 2015 to discuss sports"