Fatai Amoo: Ex-Super Eagles Coach Accuses NFF of Owed Salaries After Christian Chukwu Saga

• The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) reportedly owes the precocious Christian Chukwu $128,000 successful unpaid wages
• The federation published a connection debunking the quality aft it broke pursuing Chukwu's decease past week
• Another erstwhile caput manager of the nationalist teams has alleged that helium is owed for his services to the country

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been deed by different accusation of unpaid salaries by a erstwhile caput manager of the Nigerian nationalist teams.

The federation is presently nether occurrence for owing the precocious Christian Chukwu until his decease contempt his clamour for his entitlements to beryllium paid during his life.

Christian Chukwu, who captained Nigeria to triumph its first-ever AFCON, was owed respective months' salaries by the NFF. Photo by Shaun Botterill
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Chairman, arsenic helium was fondly referred to, was reportedly owed $128,000 (₦205 million) for his services arsenic the caput manager of the Super Eagles from 2003 to 2005.

Chukwu passed distant connected Saturday astatine 74, and aft the NFF paid homage to him connected societal media, a 2008 study from the BBC of the erstwhile skipper asking for his funds surfaced.

The erstwhile manager was the skipper of the Green Eagles, which included superstars similar Segun Odegbami, Best Ogedegbe, Muda Lawal, and Peter Fregene who won Nigeria's archetypal Africa Cup of Nations rubric successful 1980.

Fatai Amoo accuses NFF of unpaid wages

According to Brila FM, erstwhile manager Fatai Amoo has alleged that the federation owes him salaries, also, further piling up vigor connected the NFF arsenic they are inactive battling the Christian Chukwu saga.

Former Super Eagles adjunct manager Fatai Amoo claims helium is besides being owed salaries by the NFF. Photo credit: Top Africa News
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Amoo, who coached the nationalist squad astatine each levels, including the U17, U20, U23 and the elder nationalist team, claimed helium was not paid for immoderate of those services.

One of the NFF’s nationalist defences against the allegations from Chukwu was that anyone should travel guardant with verifiable documents that the precocious manager was owed.

Amoo added that helium has each the papers of his contracts, particularly for the Super Eagles.

NFF owed Gernot Rohr

There were insinuations by immoderate fans connected societal media that specified incidents often hap to section coaches, but determination person besides been instances of the federation owing overseas managers too.

According to BBC Sports, a FIFA tribunal ruled successful May 2022 that the NFF had 45 days to wide the outstanding outgo of $380,000 owed to the Franco-German manager Gernot Rohr, months aft his dismissal.

According to The Guardian, the NFF owed different overseas coaches successful caller times, including Portuguese Jose Peseiro and Super Falcons caput manager Randy Waldrum.

The database of owed coaches is endless, arsenic erstwhile caput coaches Augustine Eguavoen, Amodu Shaibu, and Samson Siasia person astatine 1 clip oregon the different spoken astir being owed by the federation.

NFF denies owing Christian Chukwu

Legit.ng reported earlier that the NFF denied owing Christian Chukwu unpaid wages during his clip arsenic the caput manager of the Super Eagles, a word which ended successful 2005.

NFF wide caput Dr Mohammed Sanusi claimed that the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF constituted a committee which investigated and settled each debts owed by the federation.

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Source: Legit.ng