BY OKEY NDIRIBE, Abuja
A former Chairman of the Nigerian Football Association (NFA now NFF) Brig. Gen Dominic Oneya (rtd)  has expressed doubt whether the present Board of the  soccer-ruling  body could sack the embattled Coach of the Super Eagles, Samson Siasia, over the team’s inability to qualify for the 2012 African Nation’s Cup tournament to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

Gen. Oneya who is the Chairman of Ministerial Committee on Reforms in Nigerian Football expressed this view yesterday in Abuja while speaking to sports journalists over the raging national debate concerning the fate of  the national team handler.

“You know that during my time as Chairman of NFA, I sacked Amodu Shuaibu and Bonfrere Jo. But I don’t know whether the present NFF Board can sack Siasia”.

The former NFA boss admitted that Nigerian football was sinking adding that even a five year old boy knew this.

He further stated that his committee’s work had reached an advanced stage  and required the input of the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the football ruling body before its assignment could be completed.

He also admitted that the Committee would  later  take a position on the fate of Siasia in its recommendations adding that “we can’t run away from the matter”.