Nigeria Football Federation medical committee chairman, Abdulkadir Mu’azu, has called for the speedy approval of the use of doping control for the 2013/2014 league season.

Dr. Mu’azu said in Abuja that the proposal needed the approval of the NFF and the League Management Company (LMC).

He added that Nigerian sportsmen were relatively free from drugs, saying that in the past four years no athlete or players had tested positive to banned substances.

“Football is relatively clean in Nigeria; we can say that we had a couple of doping tests and haven’t found any footballer in the past four years test positive to any banned substance.

“Beyond that, we are pushing both the NFA and the LMC to accept the introduction of doping control during specific Globacom Premier League matches.

“So, we can actually sample some players and test them to see whether they are taking drugs or not, hopefully if this proposal is accepted it will start with the 2013/2014 season,” he said.

The chairman said that having a selective doping control carried out in some specific league matches would help to curtail the incidence of doping among the players.

“We cannot afford to do doping control for each league match because of the cost associated with doping control; we don’t have a doping control laboratory in Nigeria.

“What we are saying is that we will do a selective control for some of the matches like the just-concluded Super Four should have involved doping control.

“The doping control should be a surprise during the league, it should take place before the match commences just like in CAF competitions,” he said.