A football agent named Jolly Ogu says the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has kept his job because of the amount he gives certain individuals as bribe from his monthly salary.
Peseiro was on $70,000 a month as coach of the Nigerian team but he took a pay cut when he extended his deal for three months which covers the period of the Africa Cup of Nations next year.
He currently earns $50,000 a month and according to Ogu who claimed he brought the coach to Nigeria, and ensured that he got the job despite performing poorly during the interview, the coach greases the palms of an unnamed individual every time he gets paid.
The Europe based agent went ahead to claim that the coach is yet to give him the agreed share for his role in helping him secure the job, which he claimed he did in a space of 48 hours using a close confidant of the former president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
“Coach Peseiro is yet to settle me my share after I helped him secure the job. Peseiro is yet to fulfill his agreement. I know what I did for him to get the job. I know the joker I played. Withing 48 hrs, the camel’s back is broken. He said he’s keeping $20,000 for someone and I said why, since then, he put me in his black book”. Jolly Ogu said on popular WhatsApp platform, Sports World.
All attempts to get Peseiro to respond to the allegations proved abortive as he didn’t take or return the calls we put through to him for his own side of the story.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
