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Friday, 12 August 2016

Rio 2016: Mikel Obi pays $4000 to free squad after hotel officials held them to ransom over bills

John Mikel Obi paid $4000 to free the Olympic football squad after the team was held to ransom by hotel officials in Sao Paulo over bills incurred by additional NFF officials according to reports.

According to the report by African Football, the team is comprised of 25 players-18 players and 7 officials, but extra five officials were added to the team's hotel roster, and the hotel management insisted the team pay before departing, but instead of the NFF or the Sports Ministry to pay up the bills, Mikel Obi, who is also Team Nigeria's captain shelled out $4,000 before they were allowed to leave the Sao Paulo hotel to Salvador.
 
“We just arrived Salvador now (5.20pm Nigerian time) from Sao Paolo. We nearly missed our flight because of unpaid bills in the hotel. The hotel held us to ransom,” a team official told AfricanFootball.com

“The problem is that all the additional officials here in Brazil are the responsibility of the Nigeria Football Federation, who said they will pay for them, but they did not pay for them again.

“The affected officials included the team’s media officer, the team coordinator, the kits manager in charge of players and officials’ kits and the accompanying assistant director technical.

“A call was put across to the honourable minister of youths and sports, he said we should put the bill in the (credit) card but the card didn’t work. They tried and tried but the minister said that only 18 players and seven officials should be captured as regards payment according to the rules of the Olympic Games.

“So, the hotel bills of these other officials, about five of them cost the sum of over $4,000. They held us hostage for more than one hour and we nearly missed our flight. It was Mikel (Obi) who rescued us by paying the money.

“I can tell you honestly speaking that this incident is not the fault of the minister because the minister listed the people to be accommodated which were 18 players and seven officials”

35 comments:

Unknown said...

Mimi u're a big boy

Unknown said...

Shame to u dalung..shame to u NFF

JEMBETE(KEY-POINT) said...

APC MEMBERS MAKE UNA TELL ME IF NA GEJ COS AM????

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

Na wa o.

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~glo rule your world~ cos I do•

Unknown said...

So thoughtful of him...x

Unknown said...

May God hlp us

Unknown said...

Wetin the additional people go do there??? Linda take note!

Unknown said...

THAT'S SO GOOD OF HIM, SAVING THIS SHAMELESS SHAMELESS.









AUNTY LINDA 👩

Unknown said...

More blessings bro!
I wonder the kind of govt we have Nwa_Nsukka

Unknown said...

Big boy

Anonymous said...

this is a disgrace to sports ministry, NFF and the Nigerian govt. SHAME!!!

baba said...

I love mikel
Lib
Onye by splash

bae said...

He is a leader God bless u bros

Anonymous said...

Iwuno, every sports team needs a media officer, a kit man and a coordinator. RECEIVE SENSE.

Chizzy Liz said...

******************************God bless u Mikel************

Simple News Naija said...

Nah God Save their ASS see as them go disgrace them self outside, MIEL God Bless you

Anonymous said...

This useless, disgusting, evil and demonic group called APC will blame this on GEJ. Your end is near, good for nothing APC.

Unknown said...

only God will save us from this national disgrace all the time; the other day it was during African cup that the former was said to be paying for our feeding, now Mikel is bailing out the team as if the contingent has not been funded; where are monies?? (LOC)

ONLINE GURU said...

Bias minds, its not the work of the government but the corrupt NFF officials, money was disbursed into the NFF account but they became a miser for their own gainful purpose.

Unknown said...

Most of you commenting obviously didn't read the full story

Unknown said...

hahahahahahahhaah poor nigeria

linda sit on my face said...

poor

Unknown said...

Amaju Finished.

Unknown said...

The major concern now is,how long will NFF continue to bring disgrace to this Nation and when will it stop?and Why adding another officials when there number they can cater for?

Unknown said...

May God replenish your pocket in billion folds my dear Mikel Obi

Unknown said...

Shameless Nff nd those incharge. They can never do things right. God bless u Mikel









Lib addict#just passing#

Anonymous said...

NFF always disgracing Nigeria.

Mariamah said...

Why did you guys not follow the list

Unknown said...

the spirit of change

Ayo Michael said...

What a country. A country ruled by retarded BIGOT.

The name Nigeria, just like the country Nigeria makes me often want to VOMIT.

Anonymous said...

And some people are questioning why he is made the captain of the Olympic team, since this is his first appearance. My answer to them by making reference to team Great Britain who chose an Andy Murray over another person. They still did not agree with me. Now am happy with his benevolent act.

Good Luck to our Captain. pee.

okoroma said...

Mikel don't form big boy o, 4k dollars can buy for you good meals and drinks, buhari govt is not worth Sowing seed for, request pay back ASAP and donate it to charity.

kulikuli said...

That is exactly why they made him captain,
Remember when they floated the rumour that he donated $30,000 to the team, and he quickly denied it? They were nudging him to; or at least preparing his mind

People in government are such predators! Today it is Keshi, then Oliseh and now Obi.
Soon these 'undeserving outsiders' will realize this trend and either fight back or distance themselves.

Monkey dey work baboon dey chop.

Disgusting rubbish!

Anonymous said...

This is shameful. I would not have paid. I would have bailed myself out and let them arrest those extra nuisance people that they added to the roster. Mikel, why did you do that?

Unknown said...

he should be repaid back.. full of shits NFF

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