The General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, has said that the football governing body does not owe the late Nigeria captain and coach, Christian Chukwu.
Thelensng reports that ‘Chairman’ Chukwu died on Saturday, April 12, 2025 in Enugu at the age of 74.
However, claims emerged on social media that the NFF owed Chukwu the sum of $128,000 before his demise.
Reacting to the reports on Monday, Mr. Sanusi said: “There is no record in the NFF of any outstanding indebtedness to ‘Chairman’ Christian Chukwu. During the first term of the Board headed by Mr. Amaju Pinnick, a committee was set up to diligently peruse the papers of coaches who were being owed, even from previous NFF administrations.
“That committee was given the clear mandate to verify all debts and ensure that the coaches being owed were paid immediately. I am aware that ‘Chairman’ was in the employ of the NFF between 2002 and 2005, before he was relieved of the post following the 1-1 draw with Angola in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Kano in August 2005.”
He affirmed that there is certainly no record of indebtedness to Chukwu in the NFF.
Sanusi challenged anyone with genuine and verifiable documents of NFF indebtedness to any coach, who has worked with any of the national teams over the past two decades, to come forward and tender those documents.
“As a credible organization that is very much alive to its responsibilities, if we are confronted with any genuine document of indebtedness to any coach, we will offset the debt immediately,” he assured.
