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FG TO PAY THE SUPER FALCONS

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Following the protest by the members of Falcon president Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay the Super Falcons their  entitlements.
 The Falcons, who beat  hosts Cameroon 1-0 to win the   African Women’s  Cup of Nations in Yaounde on December 3,  were forced to embark on protest in Abuja  after the Nigeria Football Federation failed to pay them their  bonuses and allowances.
The eighth time African champions marched on the Presidential Villa on Wednesday to press home their demands.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari,told State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa that Buhari had directed the  Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung, to ensure that  the players were paid  today.
Kyari,  who just returned from a medical trip abroad said, he had conveyed the president’s directive to the players,  who staged a protest to the gate of the Presidential Villa earlier on Wednesday.
He said, “The problem has been resolved. The players did us proud. I congratulated them on  the feat they achieved.
“I have also told them that all their entitlements would be paid latest by Thursday.
“We have called the Minister of Finance as well as the Minister of Youth and Sports. They will be paid by tomorrow (Thursday). The details, I don’t know.”
The players had planned to enter the Presidential Villa where they expected the Federal Executive Council meeting to hold.
The meeting however did not hold following the presentation of the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly by the President.
After Kyari addressed the placard-carrying players, they thereafter moved to the National Assembly in continuation of their protest.
Some of their placards read, “We are your children, pity us”; “Let us respect women”; “female football deserves respect.”
They described their neglect as pathetic and embarrassing, despite winning the AWCON, noting that they were about to be ejected from their hotel.
They said it was important for the  President to order the NFF to pay them to encourage  up-and-coming players to win titles for the country.
The treatment meted out to the record Aftican champions by the Nigerian authorities is in sharp contrast to that received by runners-up Indomitable Lionesses from the Cameroonian government.
The social media has been awash with pictures, videos and stories of the lavish ceremony  by President Paul Biya to honour the Cameroonian ladies,  despite finishing as runners-up on home soil.
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