The Isa Hayatou led-Confederation of African Foootball (CAF) three
weeks after the end of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is yet to
receive the winning prize money for winning the championship in South
Africa.
Nigeria, the current Africa Campion came first at the tournament beating
the Stallions of Burkina Faso to lift the Gold medal at the continental
championship.
Nigeria Politics Online reliably gathered that CAF is yet to remit to Nigeria the sum of $1.5m about N240m.
The amount is what the Super Eagles of Nigeria are entitle to after humiliating Burkina Faso at the epic final in Johannesburg.
At the grand celebration in Johannesburg, CAF only openly handed
Nigeria the gold plated trophy as well as gold medals to the players
and technical officials without a dummy cheque, indicating the total
cash prize due to the winners.
According to a source at the ‘Glasshouse’ member of the Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) was yet to receive the prize money from CAF
two weeks after Nigeria won the continent’s biggest football showpiece.
The source said he could not understand why there was a delay in the
transaction as the Nigerian federation had already submitted its bank
details to CAF, waiting for its account to be credited.
“We have not received any alert from CAF regarding the Africa Cup of
Nations prize money. We have sent our account number to them and the
money is yet to hit the account. We are still waiting for them to pay
the money
It is being suggested that CAF is playing hide and seek by delaying
the prize money redemption as a strategy to make Nigeria pay the
disputed TV rights fee of 8.5m euros (over N1 billion) which CAF
President Issa Hayatou claimed Nigeria was owing to the confederation
over the broadcast of the Africa Cup of Nations.
The refusal of Nigeria to pay the huge rights fees demanded by CAF
agents, resulted in the non-telecast of the Africa Cup of Nations
matches on local television stations, prompting Nigerians to watch the
matches on pay per view television.
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