president Amaju Pinnick as saying it was mischievous
to say they planned to use the donation from the
Japanese plastic surgeon Katsuya Takasu to offset
mounting debts .
Rather , they insisted that they were merely conducting
an integrity test on the donation and the donor .
The Japanese fan issued two Citibank cheques –
$200, 000 in favour of coach Samson Siasia and
$190, 000 in favour of Mikel .
“ We have resolved that no matter what , we will not
surrender this cash to the NFF , the team was quoted to
have told africanfootball .com .
“ Mikel has insisted all of us will get our share of the
money. That we should not mind what the people in
the NFF are saying .
“ He will make available this cash when he comes for
next month ’ s AFCON qualifier against Tanzania in Uyo .”
A team meeting has already resolved that both players
and officials will receive equal amount of the cash with
Mikel himself agreeing to give part of his own share for
the chief coach (Siasia ) to get more than the rest of the
squad .
It was further gathered that the sharing formula agreed
was a flat rate for the 22 players (18 accredited players
and four alternate players ) and 10 officials.
Japanese plastic surgeon, Takasu had travel from Tokyo
to Brazil to watch Nigeria beat Honduras 3- 2 to win the
bronze on Saturday .
“ I had travelled from Tokyo prepared to reward them
anyway , and to watch them win the bronze inside the
stadium was very fulfilling, ” he said.
“ This team showed resilience and fought the hardest
to achieve success , despite all their problems – some
people would have given up but they didn ’t .”
“ In everything we must always let people understand
that they are appreciated and not just in football but
generally in life , ” said Takasu.
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