Abuja, Oct 24, 2016 – The Nigerian Football Federation(NFF) has ordered Crown FC to pay N200,000 to Ifeanyi Uba for disrupting the match between it and Ifeanyi Uba as provided for in Art. 3.11 (A).
The NFF arrived at the decision after a meeting of the NFF Disciplinary Committee which looked at the petition submitted before it.
”Based on the submitted independent reports presented before the Committee as well as the Committee’s interaction with the Match Officials, i.e Match Commissioner (Mr. Bege N. Kwasau), Referee (Audu A. Ibrahim), AR1 (kabiru Adamu) and AR2 (Abubakar Yusuf) the Match Officials were found to have acted unprofessionally in their conduct during the second half of the match”, the Committee said.
Based on the above, the Committee ruled that Crown FC shall forfeit the match for encroachment resulting in the disruption of the match as provided for in Art. 3.11 (A).
“Therefore the scores at the time of disruption (i.e Crown FC 1 -2 FC Ifeanyi Ubah) stands. That Crown FC is hereby fined the sum of N200,000 as provided for in Art.That the Match Commissioner Mr. Bege N. Kwasau having been found to have acted unprofessionally is hereby referred to the NFF Match Commissioners Committee for disciplinary actions; pending this, he should not be appointed for any Match as a Match Commissioner until the outcome of the Committee decision.
“That Referee (Audu A. Ibrahim), AR1 (kabiru Adamu) and AR2 (Abubakar Yusuf) having been found to have acted unprofessionally are hereby referred to the NFF Referees Committee for Disciplinary actions; pending this, they should not be appointed for any Match until the outcome of the Committee decision”, the committee said.
Members of the committee are Prof. Olufemi Adegbola ADEGBESAN (Vice-Chairman),(Member), Kelvin C. OMOUJINE, Esq (Member), Adanmu Sani Osmond (Member), Onyeachor Chike, Esq (Member) and Christian Ifeanyichukwu EMERUWA, Ph.D,(Member/Secretary).
