Alleged financial scandal against Abakaliki FC coach meant to distract management – Ebonyi Sports Commissioner

The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports, Mr. Richard Idike, has described the caller allegations of a fiscal ungraded against Abakaliki FC Head Coach, Starplus Aniesta Chibuikem, arsenic a deliberate effort to distract the club’s absorption from delivering connected its mandate.

The commissioner made this connection portion speaking with journalists successful Abakaliki, pursuing an incidental involving an operative of the State Anti-Graft Commission who reportedly attempted to apprehension the manager astatine the Pa Ngele Oruta Township Stadium implicit alleged unauthorized deductions from players’ entitlements.

It would beryllium recalled that an Investigative Officer of the commission, Barr. Chukwuorji Igodo, accused the manager of imposing an archetypal 10 percent deduction connected players’ allowances, which was aboriginal allegedly converted to a fixed monthly complaint of ₦50,000 per player.

The serviceman besides alleged that 8 indigenous players from Ebonyi State were removed from the squad and replaced with players recruited from Enugu State.

Reacting to the development, Mr. Idike dismissed the allegations arsenic false, baseless, and politically motivated, insisting that neither the ministry nor the nine absorption mismanaged immoderate player’s funds.

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