League officiating: NFF to go hard on referees, assistants
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has promised to come hard on referees and their assistants if found culpable in acts that could be the game into disrepute.
League officiating:
NFF to go hard on referees, assistants
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has promised to come hard on referees and their assistants if found culpable in acts that could be the game into disrepute.
In a memo from the NFF Refereeing Development Committee and signed by Mohammed Ameenu, on behalf of the President, and copied the chairmen of the various league bodies as well as the General Secretary of the NFF, the department said it has observed that while some Referees and Assistant Referees uphold the principle of equity, fairness and standard interpretationsand applications of the Laws of the Game, some have compromised these standard which has brought the game and integrity of Refereeing to disrepute.
"In order to curb the excesses and negative tendencies in Refereeing decisions, the NFF President has constituted a Monitoring Committee mandated to deploy personnel to each match centres of the NPFL, NNL and NWFL in order to directly report actions and inactions of Match Officials for appropriate actions."
The statement enjoined the Referees and the Assistants to carry out their duties,diligently, truthfully, without fear or favours.
"Referees and Assistant Referees are warned that anyone who disregard these instructive guidelines and acted in manners that tend to bring the integrity of the game into disrepute shall not only be dismissed from Refereeing but shall equally be handed over to security agencies for prosecution for sabotage and match fixing," the statement added.