Fanny Amun’s Fact-finding Committee Blames NFF Congress for Nigeria’s Football Problems – THISDAYLIVE

Duro Ikhazuagbe

The Fanny Amun-led Fact Finding Committee set up by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has left more questions than answers in its report submitted to the federation after two weeks of its tenure.

Amun who led Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets as head coach to win the 1993 FIFA U17 World Cup and also coached other cadres of the senior teams, has since resigned from the committee.

The other members of the Committee set up in the wake of Super Falcons’ failure to qualify for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Brazil include; Dr Alex Mana, former Super Falcons Captain Desire Oparanozie, Coach Ladan Bosso, former Super Eagles Midfielder, Mutiu Adepoju and Nasiru Jibril, who served as secretary.

It had amongst other items to find out why Nigeria’s national teams were on a free-fail, failing to qualify for global competitions. It also looked at such areas as governance, finance, technical development, grassroots football and league management.

In a four-page final report submitted to the NFF, the Committee first carpeted the Congress made up of football stakeholders who have continuously defy past and present government moves to expand the body to accommodate persons capable of bringing fresh ideas to the administration of the game in the country.

“The alleged refusal of the NFF Congress to effect necessary, achievable and workable model of the statutes to accommodate everybody that will liberate the federation despite the requests from the three Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” was seen as the crux of the matter militating against the progress of football in the country.

Several stakeholders have in the past taken the NFF to court to make moves that will expand the Congress but it remains a close-knit body dominated by state FA chairmen, majority of whom are…