Bosso dumps FC Ifeanyi Uba over unpaid wages

Former Flying Eagles’ and Niger Tornadoes sweat merchant, Ladan Bosso, has dumped FC Ifeanyi Uba otherwise called Anambra Warriors over unpaid wages and salaries.

The Niger State born football tactician left the Nnewi-based football outfit Thursdays following months of unpaid wages and salaries of players and officials.

According a reliable source from the Nnewi based football club, it is not only Bosso that is owed by the proprietor of the club, Dr Ifeanyi Uba, who recently had his dream of going to the Red Chambers of the National Assembly quashed by his party, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) following his inability to get a waiver to enable him qualify to contest the senatorial primaries of his party but the players of the club are also suffering months of unpaid salaries.

This development has become a recurrent decimal in Nigerian football and urgent steps need to be taken by those who are running the league in the country to save players and officials from untold hardship with members of their families.

A situation where players labour for a club and at the end of the day they are given the short end of the stick does not speak well of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) which the organisers said they wantedposition to enable it attractive players from other countries.

The question is; how could a well-known billionaire not being able to pay the salaries and wages of players and coaches of his club? Despite consistently saying he has passion for the development of the game in the country.

There is no doubt that he has tried in the past in contributing to the development of the game in the country but it does not make any sense for an oil and gas mogul like him to be known as one who is just paying lip service to the development of the game by not paying his players and officials of his club.

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These people he should realize do not have any other means of livelihood and they have dependents. How do they take care of themselves and their families and yet he wants to get the best out of them. It does not make sense.

It is recalled that penultimate week; Dr. Ubah contested the position of Chairman of Chairmen of club owners during the NFF’s elections in Katsina but lost. Now, by leaving the club over unpaid salaries and allowances of players and officials Bosso has confirmed the stories making the rounds that FC Ifeanyi Uba are one of the clubs owing players and officials, months of arrears salaries in the NPFL.

With debt of several months of arrears of salaries of players and officials hanging on his neck, he went to contest for the position of Chairman of Chairmen, what an irony. That is enough to disqualify him from contesting for that position.

The earlier clubs stop denying players and officials their legitimate wages and salaries the better for the game. There is no doubt that this is one of the reasons our local league players do not stay long before leaving our shores for greener pastures abroad.

It is absolutely immoral for any employer to deny his staff his legitimate wage as the Holy Book made us to understand that a worker deserves his wage and that his wage should be paid him before even the sweat on his body dries up.

This Biblical injunction is what is expected of Nigerian employers not only club owners but any employer of labour. By paying their workers what is due to them, they are not doing them any favour whatsoever; because they earned it by rendering services for which they were recruited to render.

It is recalled that Ladan Bosso had warned earlier before his departure that if his players are not paid, he will quit and will not return until they are paid and he just made good his promise.

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