The National Association of Sports Industry and Market in its petition dated January 5, 2016 to the anti-graft agency, accused the football governing body in the country of alleged unprecedented corruption and massive fraud.
The group in the petition jointly signed by its president, Mohammed Abubakar and Secretary David Anore urged the EFCC to investigate the Amaju Pinnick led board for failing to follow due process in the award of the contract for the furnishing of the Sunday Dankaro Football House situated inside the Package B of the Abuja National stadium.
They claimed that the NFF has without due process; awarded a contract of N150million to a company called Valerino Interiors to furnish the edifice donated to the federation by the Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi led Presidential Task Force for 2010 World Cup campaign.
The petitioners also claimed that the said company belongs to one of the chieftains of the federation who used one Obi Nwosu as his front in the course of the negotiation of the contract.
The petition also alleged among other things that the NFF board had misappropriated with impunity the FIFA grant that was released to it in 2015 by the world football body for the development of women and grassroots sports, including the grant for the Super Eagles qualification for the 2014 World Cup.
"We as a recognized body and stakeholder in the sports industry, consequent upon which we want to draw your attention to the massive fraud and corruption in the NFF under the leadership of Amaju Pinnick,” they alleged in the petition.
When contacted, the spokesman of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Ademola Olajire said the body would respond to the allegations when they are officially notified. “All I can say now is that we would respond officially when we get the documents which the petitioners sent to the EFCC,” Olajire said.
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