In yet another desperate bid by embattled Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) bosses to be let off the hook of the various anti-corruption agencies, they have got the son of the country’s top security agency to be part of the Golden Eaglets training camp in Brazil.
The boy, who reportedly schools in Malaysia, was among the second batch of eight players who jetted out to Brazil from Abuja on Friday accompanied by the remaining backroom staff who did not make the first flight on Wednesday.
This “PR stunt” is simply to curry the favour of the top security chief as the NFF chieftains continue to run from pillar to post in their unguarded desperation to escape the long arm of the law.
“It’s a case of using one corruption to cover another corruption,” SCORENigeria was informed.
NFF president Amaju Pinnick, vice presisents Seyi Akinwumi and Shehu Dikko, general secretary Mohammed Sanusi as well as executive committee member Ahmed Yusuf ‘Fresh’ are facing a corruption trial, which will resume on November 5 in Abuja.
They are also being investigated by both ICPC and EFCC on various other corruption allegations.
A top official alleged that one of the accused NFF chieftains was the brain behind the selection of the boy even though he did not deserve to make the squad to Brazil.
“He is at best an average player and should not have been anywhere near the flight to Brazil,” a source informed SCORENigeria
“But the big ogas at the NFF are using all the tricks in the book to stay away from the courts and justice.”
The source added: “He is simply on a short holiday in Brazil all expenses paid by the broke NFF as he won’t make the final squad.”
It was gathered that the boy was often accompanied by several fully suited operatives from his father’s agency to the Goal Project in Abuja when he trained with the Eaglets.
The security operatives will then station themselves in strategic points of the Goal Project to make sure his personal security was not compromised.
The Golden Eaglets will today submit a final 21-man squad for the U17 FIFA World Cup, which begins on October 26 in Brazil.
That’s how day usually do in Nigeria when try to win or gain (favour) by flattering. I personally huge NFF should the person(s) that stand as aider to the influential boy to face the music. I can see the action as way of destruction talent of our younger ones because official always ignore skillful people from the poor families in Nigeria.