The President, Nigerian Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick,
has disclosed that Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr is still being owed some
unpaid salaries.
He also stated that the Federation took the decision to fire
the 68-year-old Franco-German coach on Sunday to prevent a “disaster” waiting
to happen.
“It wasn’t an individual decision; it was a collective
decision from the committee,” Pinnick said on Monday when he featured as a
guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme.
“We didn’t want a disaster to happen before taking the decision,” he added.
When asked whether the NFF owed Rohr some unpaid salaries,
the NFF President said, “We are owing him a couple of monies and they will be
cleared off (in) five months.”
The NFF had terminated Rohr’s contract as the Super Eagles
coach on Sunday after months of fireworks between the federation and the
Franco-German coach who managed the first team for the past 64 months.
In his place, the football federation appointed Augustine
Eguavoen, currently its Technical Director, as the Technical Adviser of the
Super Eagles on an interim basis.
Before his sacking, Rohr had demanded that the NFF paid him
his outstanding salaries of two months and an additional four months pay before
he quit the team.
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