The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the face-off between Super Falcons and officials of the Nigerian Football Federation has again summoned the NFF President, Ibrahim Gusau.
The chairman of the committee, Blessing Onu, on Wednesday, re-invited Gusau after he failed to appear on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.
Re-inviting the NFF President, Onu said the sitting of the committee was not to witch-hunt anyone but to discharge its functions in line with the mandate of the House.
Onu, who issued the summon, frowned at the NFF President’s deliberate refusal to honour the invitation of the committee.
She stated that Gusau was supposed to appear before the committee on August 17, adding that the reasons the NFF President gave were not as important as the work of the committee.
The lawmaker said: “Nigerians are interested, Nigerians are watching. The girls did extremely well and they made Nigerians proud; so we shouldn’t take this investigative hearing lightly.
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“We gave an opportunity for the president of NFF to appear before this ad hoc committee, I will say invariably he is the one summoning us.
“He came up with an excuse that it is not as important as what we have. The allowances and the dues that were supposed to be paid to the female footballers, the Super Falcons, and he turned it down.
“What is more important is for him to attend the FIFA Women Convention or to appear before this committee.
”And even at that he has the effrontery to send his SA that he won’t be able to make it; it simply means he is taking us for granted. He is taking us for a ride and we will not tolerate it.”
Speaking earlier, the NFF Secretary General, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, said the NFF President could not attend the investigative hearing because of his ill-health.
The committee members, however, walked out Sanusi and his team who came to represent the NFF president.
Meanwhile, some members of the committee, who did not want their name mentioned at the sideline of the investigative hearing, alleged that the NFF President was asked not to appear before the committee.
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