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Nigeria take action
« on: March 08, 2005, 07:20:07 AM »
Nigerian FA sacks five top officials
 
 
LAGOS, March 7 (Reuters) - The Nigerian Football Association has sacked five key officials and accepted the resignation of its secretary general following a probe into corruption, NFA chairman Ibrahim Galadima said on Monday.
The changes at the top of the footballing body will be seen as a victory for the government, which had been threatened with an international ban by the world's ruling body FIFA when it tried to sack the same officials last year.


Taiwo Ogunjobi's resignation and the sackings were endorsed last week by the NFA board at a meeting which reviewed the report of a panel that looked into alleged misappropriation of funds by the top officials, Galadima said.

'The board accepted the resignation of Ogunjobi ... and the sacking of five of the NFA's six heads of department because their appointments were irregular,' Galadima said by phone from the Nigerian capital Abuja.

The three-man panel established that the association's funds were mismanaged, but stopped short of indicting any of the six officials, Galadima said.

Sports minister Musa Mohammed had fired Ogunjobi and the association's six managers in December, but reinstated them in January after soccer's world ruling body FIFA threatened to slam an international ban on the former African soccer champions.

FIFA statutes prohibit governmental interference in national associations.

The officials were suspended shortly after their recall and a panel set up to probe allegations of financial mismanagement against them.

'This time the sackings have been done by the board which hired them, so I don't anticipate any objections from FIFA,' Galadima said.

The NFA, which has trimmed its workforce to around 50 from 125, would be run by an interim team until replacements for the six officials are found, Galadima said.
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