Vice President Mike Umeh has described Wednesday’s fire
as suspicious while Victor Baribote called for the security
services to probe the loss of important documents
By Shemmy Sholabomi
Aug 21, 2014 00:15:00
After the Wednesday morning
fire incident that engulfed the
third floor offices of the Nigeria
Football Federation in Abuja,
the vice president Mike Umeh
has described the it as an act of
sabotage. Umeh who was
acting president until Aminu Maigari was reinstated by
world governing body FIFA was angered about the fire
incident and only stopped short of claiming that Maigari
used it to cover his tracks.
A meeting was held on Tuesday where a communiqué was
issued by the NFF postponing next Tuesday’s general
elections . Umeh claims that it is all part of a ploy by
Maigari’s faction to hide their dirty linen.
“A lot of corruption is going on in the Nigeria Football
Federation. The [fire incident] is an act of sabotage,” Umeh
told media in Abuja.
“The meeting held [at the NFF Secretariat on Tuesday], we
were not part of it and we did not agree with it. Nobody can
perpetuate himself in power. It is not done.
“They are just buying time. We have to hold our elections
on the 26th of this month. If they like let them burn the
whole of Abuja we must hold our election.
“Of course it could be an act of sabotage if not what kind of
fire (outbreak) is this? This happened during working
hours. It did not happen during the night when we can say
it was as a result of power failure (surge) during the night,”
he said of the fire that was reported to have started from
the office of the Accountant.
“I understand one of our big men was here watching the fire
burning. The information I got was that the General
Secretary was here watching the fire burning,” Umeh said.
A former board member of the NFF who is proprietor of
Premier League club, Nembe City FC, Victor Rumson
Baribote said there is every need for security agencies to do
thorough investigation of the fire incident which he said is
akin to what could happen only in a place where there is a
restaurant.
According to him, “The truth is that both the security
agencies and the staff on duty have a lot of things to tell
Nigerians because this is not a restaurant where this type
of fire can just rage without anybody doing something to
contain it.
“Even as I don’t want to apportion any blame on anybody
yet, but coming at a time when people were calling for a
probe and people needed documents, then it needs to be
investigated because it means that there is something
fishy,” Baribote observed.



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