Super Eagles’ Head Coach Stephen Keshi yesterday described the seven-month salaries being owed him by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as “the lowest point” of his coaching career.
Keshi, who stated this in an interactive session with the media yesterday, ahead of the Super Eagles’ upcoming international friendly against Jordan in Amman, was reacting to a statement credited to the NFF that the allowances and bonuses the team’s coaches earn were enough to sustain them.
The coach is being owed about N35million in salary arrears.
Keshi however said the NFF had not done him any favour with the Super Eagles’ coaching job, because he had done the job with all he had.
“The lowest point of my career is working and not being paid for seven to eight months. I have never had this kind of experience before,” he said.
The former Super Eagles captain recalled that he was never owed his salaries when he worked with the Malian and Togolese football federations as coach of their senior national teams.
“In Mali, they will never owe you. Your salary will hit your account before the end of every month. It was the same thing in Togo.”
“Owing me up to seven months makes me feel I am not being appreciated. It is like they (my employers) think I am being favoured in what I am doing.”
“I am not being favoured. Whatever I am doing here, I am doing it with everything I have and I need to be respected to be given my pay,” Keshi said.
He said it was unbelievable that he and his colleagues had worked without pay for about eight months out of the 24 months they have worked with the Super Eagles.
News Source: Daily Trust.
Its appalling to hear such stuff like non payment of the salaries of the super eagles coaching crew. Is it possible that those “Goats” administrators overseeing the affairs of NFF don’t get paid their monthly salaries and allowances for a single month? How can any sound mind open his mouth to say the bonuses paid the crew is enough to sustain them? Could that be said to a foreign coach? Never! There was an agreement reached with this crew before they were contracted,why breach it? Please,I plead with everyone that is accessible to the presidency to please lodge a petition to Mr. President to this effect as soon as possible to expedite payments due to Stephen Keshi and co. As they have been doing us proud. We should not let the bad luck of their non payment stop our world cup dreams o! Or even have us disgraced to early@ the world cup if we qualify even by minows we may meet
Try pay keshi
What a terrible country.May be the senate will come to say the salary agreement was signed by govt representative who do not know left from right.Keshi,the ball is in ur court.
This is unbelievable after all he have put in place to see that we get to that level way will he b treated like a nobody nigeria try to appreciate what is good cus greediness will not take us any where place pay keshi his own quota