Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe says appropriate action will be taken following the airport saga involving the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Libya.
The players and their officials were held at the Al Abaq Airport for several hours on their arrival in Libya for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday four encounter.
The contingent were denied access to food, water and internet.
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CAF has already referred the matter to its disciplinary committee.
“We should have zero tolerance. When there was this problem of the Nigerian national team in Libya, I will not comment on that because there is a proper investigation,” Motesepe said during the CAF’s 46th Ordinary General Assembly in Addis Ababa, on Tuesday,
“But I want to emphasise a principle that we will not tolerate. This is something that has been going on for quite some time.
“Forget about the Libya vs Nigeria situation; forget about that; appropriate action will be taken. I have heard too many stories about a football club or national team that goes to a country.”
By Adeboye Amosu
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Mosepe, if you are reading or if there’s anyone here to forward my comment to you, pls dont try to change the goal post for CAF rules are clear on issues of this nature. Whether it happened before is non of our business since no club or Nation reported whatever to CAF. Be clear, go ahead and treat this case with utmost sincerity and the justice it requires otherwise, Nigeria will pull out of CAF.
Who told you no club has never reported cases of maltreatment to CAF before now….?
Motsepe is a club owner himself, and he knows what his team has been made to face when playing away from home in other parts of Africa, not limited to north Africa alone.
The truth is that it’s a practice that has gone on for decades unchecked….even Nigeria has not been left out, especially in the 90s. But fortunately, or unfortunately, in 2024, such dark arts have become old fashioned.
CAF has to come down hard this time around to end it for good.
This should be in addition to fashioning out an efficient travel arrangement framework to which all 54 member associations must be signatories to and abide strictly by, whilst also carrying CAF along every step of the way or risk heavy penalties.
We cannot still be struggling with issues travel arrangements in Africa in 2024. There should be strict frameworks and guidelines guiding things like these on ground already. Its just that CAF makes simple things look like rocket science.
We cannot be moving backwards when the rest of the world is moving forwards. We shouldn’t have to wait on FIFA to teach us basic fundamental things that are germane to the growth and development of the game on the continent.
Taking proper care of our own stuff is the first step towards earning respect from the rest of the world.
For your information, this is a social media channel and I’m sure the person my comment is meant for must have received it. Though I’m trying to make meaning of the incoherent stuff you put out here.
“Yanga dey sleep, trouble come wake am”
Ringing region to see your mess there needs being cleared….lmao… We are talking sports here, so type sensibly, if you could or shut up.
Hehehehehe….you don’t need to make meaning of the incoherent stuff you put out here.
That’s too much work for your brain to handle.
Just busy your brain for now with the simple task of knowing that your claim that no club or Nation has never reported cases of maltreatment to CAF before now is false.
Clearly, you lack the capacity to comprehend where Mosepe is headed.
Even at that, what stops CAF for applying it’s constitutional provision assuming such report ever flew.
Moreso, must it be now that we made our case against the mistreatment of our players by the Libyan authority that CAF should be saying such. You need to read the lines.
As always, your comment deserves full consideration by the power-that-be in CAF and the FIFA circles. Thanks, doctor. God bless.
Pull out of caf? Who does that benefit lmaoo
Hahahaha Nigeria will pull out of CAF to go join UEFA na…LMAOoo…or CONCACAF (since they still have a CAF in their name).
The report says the matter is already refered to the disciplinary committee which is statutorily saddled with such matter, yet he is here issuing threats to Patrice Motsepe…LMAOoo….And he says someone else is saying incoherent stuff….LMAOoo
Continue explaining and exposing your false narrative against your fatherland, Nigeria and to think people are being fooled
Go back to your first comment.
Does the mistreatment of the SE benefit Nigeria?
If the judgement is not justified, I will support the pulling out from nonsense. How do you stay with an entity that has no regard for your interest?
Who is asking the Dr. Idiot whether Mosepe is a club owner? People with such appellation supposed get sense and not writing because others are writing. Whatever.
Nna is from sadeast, always showing bitterness on any good thing Nigeria forgetting everybody remains or forced to remain INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF NIGERIA