Dakkada appeal NFF Disciplinary Committee decision

Details have emerged that Uyo-based mostly NPFL outfit, Dakkada, have appealed from a person of the rulings of the NFF Disciplinary Committee (NDC) in the matter among Kano Pillars and Dakkada FC as contained in the choices of the NDC which ended up released at the finish of the Committee’s sitting in Abuja, last Friday.

According to a supply near to the top rated flight facet, the Decided on Types are requesting that the consequence of the match be declared the draw that it was and 1 stage extra to their tally for the time although two are deducted from factors presently accrued by Kano Pillars.

“I commend the determination of associates of the NDC to stand by the reality to access the selections that they so honourably achieved but I am concerned that the failure of the NDC to declare the consequence of the match as the draw that it was would established a incredibly perilous precedent for our football particularly due to the fact the NDC place phone calls throughout to the centre referee, Mr. Hayatou Muhammad and assistant referee just one, Mr. Olalekan, each of whom confirmed to the Committee on speaker cell phone that the match finished 1-1 and that they were being under duress though creating the original match report”.

“Going forward, groups may be tempted to bodily assault match officers in the course of a football match thus forcibly having them to disallow ambitions and thereafter intimidate them into producing spurious match studies and relay the same to the LMC in 20-4 hours with a gun to their heads”, the source, who did not want his title stated, said.

The 2018/2019 NNL Champions are also hoping that the determination to suspend the match officials, whom they describe as heroes of the domestic activity, would be rescinded.

“Imagine suspending the match officials for standing by the fact in the encounter of untold intimidation, threats and physical assault”. “The assistant referee a single missing consciousness for more than five minutes, only to get well and be suspended? Does that not fret stakeholders such as the NRA?” “To me, they are the heroes of the domestic video game and really should be handled as such”, the resource additional.

On the problem of weakened digital camera, the source questioned, ” If they did not injury our camera and layed siege on our videographer, how arrive there are no even further footages of what transpired promptly following the former Chairman, Alhaji Surajo, punched the assistant referee one particular?” “They taken out the camera’s memory card, broke the microphone, harmed the lens and taken out the battery by the time they returned it to us but fortunately for us the match was recorded on to the interior (inbuilt) memory of the digital camera, that is why we were however equipped to have the clips”, the source noted.

In the meantime the choices of the NDC in the make any difference have ongoing to be celebrated by stakeholders across the nation with quite a few describing them as just and fair in the interest of the expansion and improvement of football in the region.

As the season winds down this weekend, both equally Kano Pillars and Dakkada will be fighting for their NPFL life with residence fixtures against Capturing Stars SC and Sunshine Stars respectively on the final day of this campaign.