Edo State Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Mika Amanokha, has sacked nine non- productive Bendel Insurance players.
Addressing the players during their training session at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium Benin-
City, Amanokha said the government was no longer ready to tolerate
non-productive players in the camp. He averred that only players who are
ready to deliver would be left for the remaining part of the NNL
football season.
He also charged the regular players to up
their games or be shown the way out, noting that Bendel Insurance can
still get promotion to the elite league if only the players can show more commitment to their games.
“I have no apology to anybody in taking
this decision. We have discovered that some of you are just in camp
doing nothing to help the club, and government can no longer condole
such lackadaisical attitudes. We have decided to fire nine of you that
are not contributing anything meaningful to the club. And keeping you
here would mean wasting your time, so it is better for you to go
elsewhere and better your football career.
“Therefore the Executive Governor His
Excellency Godwin Obaseki has directed me to sack nine of you from the
camp of Insurance FC. So I wish you blissful playing career wherever you
may find yourself.”
Meanwhile the embattled coach Roland
Ewere who has been under intense pressure to quit his job has denied
knowledge of the sacked players.
According to him; “I ’m not aware if the
commissioner has sacked players from my camp or not, as the head of the
technical team, I should be informed and be carried along, again I’m
supposed to be the one that will give them list of non- productive
players to be fired.
We are in a critical situation most
especially now that the NNL is coming to an end, no one knows the
players that God would use to deliver results, and it is not possible to
play 22 players in a game, I want to get results, so I need good
players that will give us results.”
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