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fof1:
From the above Briefs, Coach Siasia is Completely INNOCENT and with out Blemishes. He doesn't Deserve the Five Years Ban too. Nigeria Should Stand for him.Pls

[quote author=sfinkzslot post=102969153][/quote]The rules for match fixing are similar to the rules regarding coups. If someone approaches you to fix a match, then you must say no and report it. It's not enough to just not do it. You have to reject it and report it.

If you are approached or suspect that a colleague or someone you know has been approached or is involved in fixing, then you must report it to The FA immediately.

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/policies/betting-rules

According to the FIFA Disciplinary Code, every person bound by the Code shall immediately and voluntarily
report to the secretariat of the Disciplinary Committee any approach in connection with activities and/or
information directly or indirectly related to the possible manipulation of a football match or competition. As
part of its integrity action plan, every MA should set up its own reporting mechanisms.

https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/protect-the-integrity-of-football-x4103.pdf?cloudid=rjvao05ofvgibipajldl

So the question is whether Mr Perumal asked Siasia to select certain players or to look the other way while matches are fixed and if he did, what did Siasia do about the request. That's the issue.

chloride6:
Naptu2 the image launderer is here again..



Sia Sia didn't do anything but still got 5 years?

Is 5 years the reward for innocence?

I'm only responding because your comprehension skills are marvellous. I said that Siasia didn't do anything??




Anyway, keep trying, maybe one day you'll succeed.

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FIFA banned former Nigerian coach, Samson Siasia, for match fixing in 2019 and many people have assumed that he was banned for fixing Nigeria's matches. That's not the case. Samson Siasia Banned For Life By FIFA For Bribery, Match Fixing



There is a notorious Singaporean match fixer known as Wilson Raj Perumal. He is notorious for organising a lot of scam/fixed friendly matches for African countries, especially Southern African countries. His activities have led to the resignation, banning and dismissal of a lot of sports officials in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone. He is also known for fixing matches in Asia and his activities led to the Asia-gate match fixing scandal. Mr Perumal has tried to fix matches in the Finnish League and the English Premier League.


Mr Perumal allegedly contacted Siasia and told him that there was a job vacancy in Australia. He was to help Siasia get the job if Siasia agrees to field players that Mr Perumal would select. Siasia had previously played in Australia in the 1990s.


However, the Australian club never accepted Siasia's demands, so he never got the job. Investigations into Mr Perumal revealed e-mail exchanges between him and Siasia. (Mr Perumal has been arrested and jailed in both Singapore and Finland for match fixing). This came to the notice of FIFA and the rest is history.

Mr Siasia said that he never met Mr Perumal and that he didn't do anything wrong. He said that he never accepted Mr Perumal's offer. He said Perumal contacted him by e-mail about a job offer in Australia, but the deal fell through because they couldn't pay what he wanted.



The Court for Arbitration in Sports reduced Mr Siasia's ban to five years because it said that Mr Siasia did not benefit anything (monetary or otherwise) from the interaction and he did not actually fix any match (he was never employed by the Australian club). Furthermore, they said that it was a first time offence and so it would be too harsh to ban him for life.

Samson Siasia: Life-Ban Reduced To Five Years By Court Of Arbitration For Sport

It is being reported that Mr Siasia plans to challenge the decision of the court.


However, Mr Perumal does have a connection with Nigeria. He claims in his book that he ferried Nigeria and Honduras to the final rounds of the 2010 South Africa FIFA World Cup by fixing their qualification matches. Mr Siasia was not the coach at the time.

Picture 1: Wilson Raj Perumal.

Picture 2: Samson Siasia

I want to make it clear that Siasia's ban had nothing to do with any Super Eagles or Nigerian National Team match.


There is a notorious Singaporean match fixer known as Wilson Perumal. He is notorious for organising a lot of scam/fixed friendly matches for African countries, especially Southern African countries. His activities have led to the resignation, banning and dismissal of a lot of sports officials in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe. He is also known for fixing matches in Asia.


Mr Perumal contacted Siasia and told him that there was a job vacancy in Australia. He was to help Siasia get the job if Siasia agrees to field player that Mr Perumal would select. Siasia had previously played in Australia in the 1990s.


However, the Australian club never accepted Siasia's demands, so he never got the job. Investigations into Mr Perumal revealed e-mail exchanges between him and Siasia. (Mr Perumal has been arrested and jailed in both Singapore and Finland for match fixing). This came to the notice of FIFA and the rest is history.


However, Mr Perumal does have a connection with Nigeria. He claims in his book that he ferried Nigeria and Honduras to the final rounds of the 2010 South Africa FIFA World Cup by fixing their qualification matches.

See previous thread here: Samson Siasia Banned For Life By FIFA For Bribery, Match Fixing

Samson Siasia: Life-ban reduced to five years by Court of Arbitration for Sport

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Samson Siasia coached Nigeria as they won bronze at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.


Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia's life-ban from football for bribery has been reduced to five years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).

The 53-year-old was initially sanctioned in 2019 by Fifa for agreeing to "receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches."

Siasia appealed against the ban with football's governing body and Cas as he denied the charges against him.

Cas "determined the imposition of a life ban to be disproportionate for a first offence which was committed passively and which had not had an adverse or immediate effect on football stakeholders, and that a five-year ban would still achieve the envisaged aim of punishing the infringement committed by Mr Siasia."

The ban has been backdated to start on 16 August 2019 as the court explained the background to the case.

"In 2010, a match fixer tried to involve Mr Siasia as a coach of a club under his strict instructions," Cas revealed.

"With the promise of employment benefits, Mr Siasia would have had to always field several players under the control of the match fixer.

"The negotiations between the match fixer and Mr Siasia in relation to the conditions of employment were conducted by email over a period of two months.

"Eventually, the club did not accept or could not afford Mr Siasia's requests and the negotiations ended."

The court also cancelled a fine of CHF 50,000 (US$50,000) that had also been part of the sanctions imposed by Fifa.

"(Cas) acknowledged the need for sanctions to be sufficiently high enough to eradicate bribery and especially match-fixing in football.

"However, the Panel considered in the particular circumstances of this matter that it would be inappropriate and excessive to impose a financial sanction in addition to the five-year ban, since the ban sanction already incorporated a financial punishment in eliminating football as a source of revenue for Mr Siasia.

"And considering that Mr Siasia had not obtained any gain or pecuniary benefit from his unethical behaviour."

A former international, Siasia won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria and played in their maiden World Cup appearance later that same year. He played over 50 times for his country while scoring 16 goals.

As a coach he led his country's under-20 and under-23 sides to continental success in 2005 and 2015 respectively.

He also guided the under-20's to a runners-up finish at the 2005 World Youth Championships (as it was known at the time) in the Netherlands.

Siasia is the most decorated African football coach at the Olympics, winning silver at the Beijing Games in 2008 and bronze at the 2016 Games in Rio.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/57552593

chukel:
its foolish to ask national assembly to impeach him when you dont have grounds on which he should be impeached. It's foolish to constitute nuisance and disturb public peace asking an elected official to resign. A prerogative he has. Very foolish. I repeat, the smart thing to do is to head to national assembly with evidence of impeachable constitutional breach by the president. Anything outside that is not only foolish but illegal. Let the rogue elite continue using the unfortunate youth. Sowore will continue using these youth to foster activities that fetch him heavy grants while they languish in poverty.

You keep talking about foolish, foolish, what the heck does that have to do with my post?

The question is whether it is treasonous or not to ask for the resignation or impeachment of the president. If you say it is treasonous, cite the law that makes it treasonous to protest or to ask for the impeachment or resignation of the president.

Can you do that? Can you cite the law?

(You don't need to come back to rant again or give us your opinion, that's not what's required. Simply cite the law).

chukel:
you allow emotion take over you. I wish you can get someone to read what you typed so you can listen and hear how ridiculous you sound. There are 4 constitutional ways a president can leave office.
1. Death- if God calls him
2. Impeachment- if NASS decide so
3. Resignation- if he decides to resign
4. Election- if you the people decide to vote him out.
Now you are doing it the wrong, ignorant and irresponsible way. This also shows how foolish today's youths are and the reason they will never be respected.
Unfortunately, you can't kill the president. You are not God.
Unfortunately, you can't force him to resign. That's his prerogative.
Unfortunately, you can't vote him out cos he is not running for election again.
The only option is impeachment. Going on the street asking for his impeachment is the height of foolishness you guys exhibit.
If you guys were smart, you would sit down and carefully study the constitution to see where he has erred and breached the constitution. You look out to see if he has committed any impeachable offence. Then go to your representatives asking them to impeach him on so so grounds. But no, you all are dumb. You don't even know the rudiments of governance and democracy. Yet you come to blab bad governance. Ignorant lazy youths.

Now who is being emotional, me or you? Read my response and read yours and ask yourself who is being emotional.

You made a lot of funny assumptions that are driven by your emotions. Firstly, I am not a youth, secondly, I am not on the street protesting. You don't even know if I support those that are protesting or not.

My post was addressed to the issue of whether it is legal to protest that the president should go and you might not realise this, but you just agreed with my post.

The issue is not whether it is foolish or not to ask the president to resign, the issue is that it is legal.

The issue is not whether it is foolish or not to ask the National Assembly to impeach him. The fact remains that it is legal to do so.

I hope you are now better informed.

GAZZUZZ:
Treasonable offence.

You can demand for good governance, but not the force a democratically elected president out of office.

Not necessarily true. They are protesting that Buhari must go, but they did not state exactly how he must go. It's not treason to ask the president to resign. The resignation of the president is recognised by the constitution and it is a lawful demand. It is also not treasonable to ask the National Assembly to impeach him. That is also recognised by the constitution.


What is illegal is to try to or plan to remove the president by any means that is not recognised in the constitution.