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Babayo C'ttee May Ask for FA's Autonomy Pro-league also be independent of FA By Tunde Sulaiman Although the committee recently set up by the Sports Ministry to restructure the way football is run in Nigeria is yet to fully swing into action, there are strong indications that it will recommend granting full autonomy of the Glass House from the ministry. The 17-man committee, inaugurated just under two weeks ago, will also very likely suggest that professional league football currently being run by a department under the NFA, should also be granted autonomy. A member of the committee who also strived hard to convince sceptics that they were not embarking on an exercise 'in futility' made this known over the weekend. "We might just be starting but let me tell you we are determined to come up with some earth shaking recommendations that will transform the fortunes of football in this country for the better. We cannot carry on doing business as usual. We need to change the way the game is run so as to be able to reap the benefits other countries not even as buoyant as we are, are reaping." He said one of the things they would be doing would be to take a critical look at the original move by former Sports Minister late Air Commodore Tony Ikazoboh (rtd) to change the face of Nigerian football. Ikazoboh, who was also a former NFA Chairman, had begun moves to make the FA free of government shackles and establish a true professional football league with the push to get two decrees approved by the then government of Gen Ibrahim Babangida (rtd). Decree 10 (Nigeria Football Association) and Decree 11 (Nigeria Professional Football League) were in fact actually signed by Gen. Babangida on May 18,1990 but never implemented because of the usual government intrigues which saw them metamorphose into Decree 101 when Chief Alex Akinyele took over the National Sports Commission (NSC) which returned after the Sports Ministry was scrapped. "Had we stuck with the two decrees (10 and 11) and not joined them together because of the self interest of a few in government who did not want any autonomy for the football body by now we would have achieved some success with the experiment. Imagine 10 years later we are now going back to revisit the same issue." Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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