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Why we’re owing Rohr — NFF

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Fears that the Super Eagles fine run in the 2018 World
Cup qualifiers could be truncated due to the arrears of
salary owed Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr have been
allayed even as some companies have promised to bail
out the Nigeria Football Federation from their financial
quagmire.
                  Gernot Rohr

Nigeria currently leads their 2018 World Cup qualifying
group with four points ahead of their closest challengers
Cameroon but off the field distractions of pecuniary
matters have heightened fears that Nigeria could bungle
their lead in the group.
Sports Vanguard gathered authoritatively that Rohr’s
three months salary arrears have become a burden to
the NFF even though the coach has handled the salary
issue diplomatically, turning off inquiries saying that ‘’it’s
a personal issue and there is no problem between me
and my employers’’.
Checks by Sports Vanguard, however, indicate the NFF
who convinced Sports Minister to hire the coach because
they had sponsors to pay his salaries were left in the
lurch by some oil companies who withdrew from their
earlier pledge to pick the salaries of the coach.
‘’It is unfortunate that the status of a Government official
in the oil sector sector changed, if not, we’ll not be
talking about the non payment of Rohr’s salary. There
was a solid agreement that the oil company would foot
the bills of the foreign technical adviser as their
Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR). It was based on it
that we went for Rohr and the coach has justified his
employment without defeat on the Eagles since he was
hired. Due to changes in government that affected the
status of the man driving the oil companies, they too,
have backtracked from honoring their pledge on the
salary of Rohr’’, a top official of the Nigeria Football
Federation said.
But the NFF in the past weeks had overcome their
gloom as partners and sponsors have given them a
lifeline on the three months arrears owed Rohr.
‘’As we talk, am sure that his salaries will be cleared.
We’ve gotten promises from partners and sponsors and
we’ll not waste time in clearing his salaries. He(Rohr)
has shown faith and understanding with us and we
honestly appreciate his professionalism and focus on
qualifying Nigeria for the World Cup as well as the Africa
Cup of Nations. We can only appeal to Nigerians not to
distract him from his set objectives’’, the source noted.
However, another snag remains the winning bonuses and
allowances for the win against Zambia. Our source said
that the Ministry, while absolving themselves from
Rohr’s salaries, should shoulder the payment for the
winning bonuses they are owed.

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