Former NFF President Sani Lulu Asks For PTF To Make Public How Funds Were Disbursed

Former NFF President Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi has reacted over a recent newspaper publication that the defunt Presidential Task Force on the 2010 FIFA World Cup expended almost =N=650 million on the Super Eagles for first World cup to be held in the Africa soil. <br /><br />Lulu in release in Abuja on Wednesday has demanded that the leadership of the PTF make available records of how the funds were disbursed, and who the recipients are. <br /><br />Quoting his words, the Omachi Atah of Igaland said&nbsp; &ldquo;That the PTF should make public the details of the funds raised&nbsp; in national newspapers for accountability ;&nbsp; that they should confirm the recipient&nbsp; of the PTF&rsquo;s remittances of $5,000 wining bonuses to Super Eagle players and who requested for PTF sponsorship for the construction of the NFF secretariat and where is the $1.65 million, my NFF-led led Board left in the FIFA account&rdquo; .<br /><br />Continuing, the former FCT Director of Sports said , &ldquo;an updated total requirement was made to the PTF from NFF for a total sum of =N=2,218,180,780, which included the total provision of =N=1,504,113,015 as contained in the approved 2010 budget, that is an additional sum =N=714,067,765, for the winning bonuses for both 2010 African Nations Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals&rdquo; .<br /><br />&ldquo;From the approved provision in the 2010 budget&nbsp; the sums of&nbsp; about =N=500 million and =N=900 million for CAN and FIFA 2010 competition respectively were remitted to the NFF by the government. <br /><br />&nbsp;&ldquo;However I wish to state authoritatively&nbsp;&nbsp; as one of the signatories to NFF accounts that no additional fund was remitted&nbsp;&nbsp; to NFF under my leadership for our participation in these tournaments as per the above estimate. <br /><br />&nbsp;&ldquo;Nigerians are aware from my numerous&nbsp; statements in my open letter to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, through paid advertorials and press&nbsp; statements&nbsp; on this issue. <br /><br />&nbsp;&ldquo;Mr. Adeniyi and PTF should therefore be urgently requested to give the details of their disbursement&rdquo;.<br /><br />&ldquo;However, I have almost been vindicated with&nbsp; Mr.&nbsp; Adeniyi&nbsp; admitting in his write up&nbsp; that the PTF which I was a member realized&nbsp; over =N= 1 billion ,&nbsp; and that a saving of =N=350 million from&nbsp; the&nbsp; World&nbsp; Cup realized fund&nbsp; was utilized in constructing the New NFF secretariat.<br /><br />&ldquo;This implies that over =N= 650 million was expended on NFF projects related to 2010 Nations Cup and the World Cup held in the same year. <br /><br />&ldquo;I again insist that no payment was made for the budgeted purpose as contained in my request to PTF vide letter dated 25/11/2009 requesting for the total revised sum of #2,218,180,780, for the two&nbsp; tournaments. The details will be disclosed in due course.<br /><br />&ldquo;I also wish to state here, that at the time of my forceful and illegal removal from office, the total sum of $1.65 million was saved in FIFA account and this was to be utilized for the construction of a new NFF secretariat which was already approved and awaiting final commencement and at no time did I make any request to PTF, to fund this project, when outstanding on players wining bonuses were yet to be redeemed&rdquo; &nbsp; he concluded.
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