NSC queries NFF over Keshi

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi
 

National Sports Commission on Thursday asked  the Nigeria Football Federation to explain why it has not paid  Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi and his assistants for eight  months.

Sources told our correspondent that the query was signed by the NSC Director-General  Gbenga Elegbeleye.

It was learned that Keshi’s outburst on Wednesday embarrassed the  Federal Government, which  asked the NSC to query the football body.

But spokesman for the NFF Ademola Olajire said he was not aware of the query.

“I’ve been in Kenya for a week and I don’t know what’s going on,” Olajire told our correspondent on the telephone.

“Please contact the General Secretary (Musa Amadu).”

When our correspondent called Amadu on his mobile telephone, he refused to confirm or deny the story.

“Go and find out from the NSC,” he said.

South Africa 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner Keshi told the media in Abuja on that not being paid after laboring for his fatherland was the “lowest point” of his coaching career.

 “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,” the former Nigeria captain said.

“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.”