Former president of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Melvin Amaju Pinnick has called on the National Sports Commission (NSC) to make payment of the country’s coaches their responsibility, Sports247 reports.
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Pinnick, who has been outspoken in recent weeks, opined that the NSC should fully take up the task of paying national football coaches in order to bring sanity into the current ‘disorganised’ process.
He pointed out that most of Nigeria’s national team coaches continue being owed their salaries and bonuses because the current process is riddled with overlapping roles between the NFF and NSC.
Pinnick went on to declare that the NSC should take the bull by the horn on behalf of the federal government, but warned them to avoid spoiling it with civil service bureaucracy.
He reasoned further, “The coaches will continue being owed, because there is no stable arrangement for payment of their salaries. Today, the government wants to pay the coaches and, tomorrow, the NFF wants to do it.
“The truth is, it will keep being like this until we have a well-structured arrangement for coaches to get paid. It would be better if the government takes up this responsibility.
“They must structure it in their budgetery provisions, as it’s done in Ghana and some other countries. They must also take out bureaucratic bottlenecks as much as possible for its smooth implementation.”
The NFF’s former supremo, who was also previously the chairman of Delta State Sports Commission, stressed that sanity will prevail in the issue of paying all of Nigeria’s national team coaches once the NSC takes up the task officially.
“It’s better for the NSC to be fully intentional and direct, by saying they want to pay our coaches. They should put it in their budget for the year or two years.
“They should do this formally and let it be devoid of all forms of bureaucratic delays. I don’t think this is something too much for the government to do,” Amaju reiterated.
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