By Victor Enyinnaya on October 5, 2016

Former Super Eagles ace defender Isaac Semitoje has expressed displeasure over the continued denial of the victorious Tunisia 1994 AFCON football summit team of the houses the Federal Government promised to reward members of the squad and their officials with for their football exploits.

He told Daily Sports in an exclusive chat that the continued foot dragging by each Nigerian government left much to be desired which has also left a bitter taste in the mouth, portraying government in this part of the world as one not to be held by its words.

“It has continued to beat our imagination that the Federal Government has never said anything about fulfilling the promises of house to the squad by the regime of General Sani Abacha government. The promised allocation of houses to the victorious players, 22 years after remains a dark spot on side of Nigerian government. That very set of the Eagles team has continued to be adjudged as the best the country has had in recent times. It qualified the nation to her first ever World Cup appearance in US in 1994 after the Tunisia 1994 AFCON victory. Now no government looks into what its predecessor handed over to it. Governments all over the world are continuum but that is not the case in Nigeria,” he remarked.

The ex-international insists that government isn´t helping matters on how to grow the confidence of players in the national team. “The way and manner each government that has been on the saddle handled the promised housing stuff for the 1994 Eagles with levity left sour taste in the mouth and tells volumes about the kind of leaders the country has been rolling out that portrays itself as liars,” he rues.

“It is sad, unheard of, shameful, and puts the government of the country in bad light. How can a serious minded government indulge in the act of promise and fail for 22 years. Where has the maxim that promise is debt gone to or has the government of Nigeria owned up being a deceitful one?  Don´t keep to it, I maintain, since 1994 and other things they promised us till today has casts doubt on the credibility of the Federal Government,” he declared.

The former Iwuanyanwu Nationale FC ace central defender added that successive governments never cared to look to that direction. The players of 1994 set did not get the houses and other promises, true to type; nobody is talking about it, which is very sad and regrettable.”

He further posits that some of the 1994 players are there as NFF technical and development committee members and surprisingly they don´t talk about it because they feed from there. It remains ridiculous on the part of our former teammates, he observes.

•Photo shows Ex-Super Eagles ace defender Isaac Semitoje.

Source Daily Sports

Posted October 5, 2016

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