The National Sports Commission (NSC) has indicated interest in wadding in into the rift between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the erstwhile Super Eagles head coach, Stephen Keshi warning that it will no longer watch while stakeholders settle dispute in regular courts.
Commenting on the way forward for the litigation, Keshi was praying the court for a N1 billion compensation from the football federation in a chat with journalists in Abuja recently, the Director General of the Sports Commission, Mallam Al-Hassan Yakmut, admitted that NSC had got the letter for the suit.
While urging both parties to embrace a more effective way of resolving the dispute, the NSC DG said: “Let me admit that I have personally got the letter of the suit, but instead of replying, I rather opted to inform the NFF asking them if they are aware that Keshi has gone to court, which they admitted knowledge of.
“It is left for them, the architects of the contract that engaged and disengaged Keshi, to ensure that there is no provision of that engagement violated. As for us, we will advice that both parties should use Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to settle their disagreement because it is now the most reliable and dependable way of resolving family crisis.”
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