Seek Clearance Handball Federations warns
The Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) has said that it is still an offence for bonafide players under contract with handball clubs in the country to seek international transfers to clubs abroad without the express permission of the national federation.
According to a release by the handball federation “It is also an office for players to go for trials to foreign clubs without the permission of HFN. Henceforth any violations by players and their local collaborators will be punished,” the board of the federation took decision during the board meeting of the federation held at the boardroom of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC). The board notes that illegal transfers of players have become rampant and hence an embarrassment to the integrity of the federation and indeed the Federal Government. “Many players have turned destitute after entering some enslaving contract with clubs, thus making the clubs to exploit their desperate dispositions. HFN insists that the federation must duly sanction all trips outside the country as well as be involved in the transfers of players in order to ensure that there is adequate protection of players in the contracts. The federation regrets that sad incidents that involved two handball players who were involved in an accident -- gas leak -- while on illegal to Tunisian clubs. The two players -- Gideon Yakubu and Yomi Farouk were on trials in Tunisian when they inhaled gas, which eventually knocked them out. While Farouk died as a result of the accident, Yakubu, who managed to come round after weeks in coma, has been on intensive care in Tunisia. The irony has been that the clubs that invited them are now refusing to pick their medical bills, citing the fact that they did not have subsisting contracts with both players. The situation has handicapped the federation from pressing legal actions against the Tunisian clubs through their national federation as well as the International Handball Federation (IHF). HFN has resolved to appeal to all continental federations to adopt the right procedures in effecting players’ international transfers.
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