Bendel Insurance FC Reject Ruling on Remo Stars

The management of Bendel Insurance FC have rejected the judgement of the Nigeria National Football League (NNL)

Disciplinary Committee on the case of assault, security breaches and field encroachment established against Remo Stars with dismay, disbelief and total loss of confidence in the country’s football regulatory body.

“We see the judgement as biased and nothing but an instrument for encouraging further violence in Nigerian football, a call to anarchy, and is therefore unacceptable,” observed the statement released by the club yesterday.

According to the the Media Officer of Bendel Insurance FC, Kehinde Osagiede, the only substance derivable from the judgment is the untouchable status vested on Remo Stars by NNL.

“ Directing Remo Stars to pay N400,000 to Bendel Insurance FC as damages is a big insult to us and the people of Edo State.

“Banishment of Remo Stars with no option from their stadium over the encroachment and assault on our players and officials would have been the first action taken against Remo Stars.

“ The failure of the disciplinary committee to mention that in their list of sanctions amounts to suffocation of justice. This is so because no other offender(s) in similar cases were warned or asked to sign any undertaking in the recent past.

“ Without any apology, the judgment is unbelievably irresponsible and capable of promoting violence among football lovers and killing the enthusiasm of football supporters in the country.”

The Bendel Insurance spokesman stressed that “considering similar cases ( though with lesser offences and injuries) involving Holly Arrows in which the judgment banished Holly Arrows to Enugu; and that of Kano Pillars in which the NPFL team was fined N8. 5million, it is easy to arrive at the conclusion that the judgement by the NNL disciplinary committee on Remo Stars v Bendel Insurance FC is bought by Remo Stars.

“We believe that the panel did not look at the rules book, particularly(Act.16:1-4) before arriving at their conclusion.”

The club spokesman there warned that be was going to mewy

Insurance FC will therefore explore other legal alternatives to seek Adequate redress by way of appealing to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Appeal Committee and may go to higher authority.