Following the resignation of the national U-20 team, Flying Eagles’ Coach John Sam Obuh from the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF job, the federation will through its General Secretary Musa Amadu hold talks with him on a yet to be fixed date at its glasshouse headquarters in Abuja.
Sunday Vanguard sports gathered authoritatively that Amadu on receiving the coach’s resignation letter on Thursday promised him that the federation would not sweep the issue of his unpaid salaries and allowances under the carpet adding that a date would be fixed for a meeting where it would be sorted out once and for all.
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Flying Eagles coach John Obuh[/caption]Confirming the meeting, Coach Obuh told Sunday Vanguard sports that the issue of his unpaid salaries has remained unaddressed by NFF but noted that now that he is no longer in the employ of the federation and with the assurance he got from the General Secretary that they would treat the matter with dispatch, he has no doubt that the federation would not want him to languish in poverty while his money is tied down.
The Coach who tutored the country’s national U-17 team that came second at the FIFA U-17 World Cup hosted by Nigeria in 2009 and led the national U-20 team to quarter final and second round stages of the FIFA U-20 World Cup competitions held in Colombia in 2011 and the ongoing edition in Turkey disclosed that he did not allow the lingering unpaid salaries distract him.
Besides the issue of unpaid salaries, Coach Obuh also faced the problem of slashing of his salary from N1 million per month to N600, 000 and when asked if the talks would also address that, he said he would not preempt what would be discussed but noted that he is hopeful that every issue would be addressed.
Obuh maintained that his resignation was based on his desire to forge ahead in his career, arguing that having served the country meritoriously, it was high time he got going since remaining static is not the best thing in life.
“It is true that the General Secretary told me we will hold a meeting next week but no date was fixed yet. I know that so many issues would be addressed including my unpaid salaries but that is not to say that I resigned because I am owed salaries. You know I have served in this capacity of coaching our age grade national teams, so I felt it was time to forge ahead,” he said.
Our investigations reveal that the Abia state born gaffer is owed salaries for between 18 and 20 months, allowances not included.
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