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EXCLUSIVE: Pinnick, Top NFF Officials Ready To Forfeit Houses, Millions Of Dollars Over Corruption Charges

www.insdeglasshouse.com can exclusively report that the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick (PICTURED WITH SHEHU DIKKO) and several other top executives are ready to let go houses and other landed properties as well as cash running into many Millions of Dollars in a plea bargain to escape corruption trial by ICPC and possibly serving time.

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency ICPC has conducted painstaking investigations on Pinnick as well as NFF Vice Presidents Seyi Akinwunmi and Shehu Dikko, Executive Committee Member Ahmed Yusuf ‘Fresh, General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi as well as several other principal officers of the secretariat.

Several associates of these officials told www.insideglasshouse.com that their colleagues are very much disposed to enter a plea bargain to avoid the circus of a corruption trial that will cause attention both locally and internationally (FIFA in particular) with the chances that could even fetch them jail time.

“A plea bargain is very much within the right of an accused person,” a source close to one of the NFF officials defended.

“The consequence is that the person will return some of what he has acquired illegally.

“And in the process avoid further media and public scrutiny among other possibilities.”

Another source said the cases of corruption against these officials were most damning that many of them could end up in jail.

“ICPC has worked a very tight case against these officials,” he revealed.

“Nothing was left to chance and no matter how long it would have taken, some of these people will even pay with their freedom.”

Pinnick’s house in Lagos seized by ICPC

It was gathered that some NFF secretariat staffers have already benefitted from the plea bargain option with the country’s other anti-graft agency, EFCC.

One of the officials at the secretariat media office and another who is a COO of one of the leagues refunded cash.

Pinnick has maintained that these investigations were merely a witch hunt and blackmail by persons desperately opposed to his administration.

At the start of the ICPC investigations, a spokesperson said what the NFF officials have far exceeded what they could have earned by legitimate means.

Shehu Dikko’s Abuja house seized by ICPC

The agency   subsequently seized several properties belonging to Pinnick and the other top officials.

Their bank accounts were also frozen.

The accused persons ran to several traditional rulers like the Sultan of Sokoto, Obi of Onitsha, Oni of Ife, the Olu of Warri, both the one who died recently and the newly crowned one, as well as top-ranked government officials and politicians to scupper the ICPC investigations.

Our recent investigative report concluded that in the last seven years of the administration of Pinnick, over 25 Billion Naira was stolen from the NFF coffers.

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