Sunday Dare, minister of youth
and sports development, says he will not interfere in the ongoing corruption
investigation being carried out on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Dare, in a meeting with NFF’s
fifteen executive members on Friday, asked the NFF to clean up its acts.
Recall that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC) placed the Lagos and Abuja residences of Amaju Pinnick and Shehu Dikko,
president and 2nd Vice President of NFF under investigation.
Rasheedat Okoduwa, an ICPC
spokesperson, had said, as well as some other NFF
executives residences, are under investigation for corruption allegations.
“We must allow them to do their
work.”
In his first meeting with the
entire membership of the board of the NFF, he pointed out that the perception
of corruption and unseriousness is hurting the sport.
The minister pointed out that the
federation must chart a new course in conducting its affairs transparently.
“The perception is that the NFF
is corrupt. The perception is that of unseriousness; this perception is hurting
the sport.
“We need to reset the perception,
the charge of corruption and other negative things can be turned around by
embracing transparency.”
NFF officials have denied being
corrupt in the past with Pinnick once saying the investigation made them “feel
unsafe”.
The NFF has been on the
watch-list of the anti-corruption agencies and is currently under investigation
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Special
Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP).
The executives of the federation
have been accused of diverting funds meant for the association
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