Minister Pays Keshi N14m

Tammy Danagogo

Sports minister, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has paid coach Stephen Keshi for the past two months.

It was understood that Keshi had been paid 14 million Naira (about $83,000) for October and November by sports minister Tammy Danagogo even though there is no contractual agreement between the coach and the NFF.

A top source informed AfricanFootball.com: “The minister has been paying Keshi directly from the NFF subvention without any input from the NFF. And one of the aides of the Minister also confirmed that the payment was equally extended to the other members of the technical crew like Amokachi, Shorunmi and others. ‘’It’s part of the agreement when the Minister brought Keshi to fill the gap. There was no NFF in place then’’.

“This cannot be good for the relationship between employer and employee.”

Keshi was in charge for the AFCON qualifiers double header against Sudan in October and then the qualifiers against Congo and South Africa last month.

Keshi

NFF president Amaju Pinnick has maintained a contract has not been agreed with Keshi contrary to media reports that the coach will now be paid a monthly salary of seven million Naira, a two million Naira raise from what he received in his initial contract, which ran out after the World Cup in Brazil.

“We have not come to an agreement yet (with Keshi),” he said.

The frosty relationship between the NFF and Keshi has worsened after the federation were ordered to re-instate the coach at the end of October. And this latest revelation can only tear employer and employee further apart.