Nigeria Players Union drags Rangers, Rivers United and Wiki to CAF •Insists on payment of debts owed players, coaches News

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Nigeria Players Union drags Rangers, Rivers United and Wiki to CAF •Insists on payment of debts owed players, coaches

By Daily Sports on November 24, 2016

The Nigeria Players Union on Wednesday disclosed that it will now proceed to the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) in a bid to get the country’s debtor clubs scheduled to participate in the CAF-organised competitions in 2017 to liquidate debts owed players and coaches.

The General Secretary of the union, Comrade Austin Popo, disclosed this in a statement issued in Lagos, a copy of which was made available to Daily Sports.

He said the move is aimed to seek “redress in line with the relevant provisions of CAF clubs licensing regulations which forbids debtor clubs and other related infractions of the club licensing regulations from registration.”

Popo said the action became necessary “having failed to secure any positive response from three out of four Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs participating in the CAF-organised competitions in 2017, namely Rangers International FC, Rivers United FC and Wiki Tourist FC.”

He said in the statement: “It will be recalled that the National Association of Nigeria Professional Footballers (NANPF) has written earlier to the affected clubs reminding them of their obligations to clear their debts as contain in the various decisions of the NFF players status and arbitration committee and others captured in the various agreement and contracts with the players and coaches.

“Unfortunately the clubs apart from Rivers United who responded but failed to enter further negotiations in line with labour and football rules with the Union, have failed to respond and do what is needful before their registration to participate in the CAF competitions can be guaranteed. As a union we are not surprised at the disposition of the clubs towards this matter as they are confident according to the information at our disposal that the league management company and the NFF will assist them to effect their registration even when they refuse to comply.

“For the sake of industrial harmony and for the good of the game we advice the clubs to liquidate the debts or better still request the LMC to pay from source from money due them to avoid the embarrassment of being disqualified from registration for non compliance to the relevant provisions of the club licensing regulations.”

•Photo shows CAF President Issa Hayatou.

Source Daily Sports

Posted November 24, 2016