Sanusi denies getting monthly salary in U.S. dollars

Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mohammed Sanusi

Secretary-General of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Mohammed Sanusi, yesterday, described as outrageous the media report that he gets his monthly salary in American dollars.

Reports at the weekend said the NFF Secretary General is being paid $10,000 monthly, an amount which the nation’s number one citizen, President Mohammadu Buhari, does not receive.

Refuting the story, Sanusi told The Guardian in a telephone conversation, that he gets his monthly salary in naira, not dollars.

Sanusi, who spoke from Argentina shortly before the Flying Eagles took on Dominican Republic in their first group match of the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup, said: “I don’t know where that person got his report, but I am telling you that I don’t receive a monthly salary in dollars.

“In the first place, I am on contract with the NFF. I have been on contract with the NFF even before the Amaju Pinnick administration. And as a contract staff, I negotiate my salary with the federation at the beginning of each year. My monthly salary should not be any issue for public debate.

“Even If I am being paid $10,000 as a monthly salary, it is personal to me and my employer. If anybody decides to calculate what I am being paid in American dollars, then, he or she should do the calculation based on the official government rate. People should not use the black market rate to calculate my salary,” Sanusi stated.

Sanusi had earlier in an online report, www.bestchoicesports.com.ng, claimed that the report was done out of mischief.

He wondered why those that engineered the report did not go to Morocco, Egypt and Algeria to ascertain how much their general secretaries earn.

“Good morning, gentlemen. I