The chairman of the Gombe State Athletics Association Shuaib Gara Gombe has suggested that the Federal Government should start sending corrupt sports administrators to jail in order to reduce the level of corruption in the country.

Gara Gombe who dropped this hint on Football Doctors a program on Facebook live on Sunday, explained that the best and the only way to reduce the level of corruption in Nigeria is to send any administrator found guilty of embezzling to the prison.

“As long as we don’t set a good example by making some people scape goats, corruption will continue to happen. Other sectors have sent people to jail, why’s the sports ministry not doing the same thing” he asked.

” Some years ago, eight hundred thousand dollars was missing at the NFF secretariat and the then sports minister who was supposed to investigate the matter and ensure that the perpetrators were brought to book, didn’t do anything after collecting twenty million dollars and a casket to bury his wife from the burial committee members that he alleged stole the money.”

According to Gombe, the Sports Minister in his defense for receiving the money and the casket said:  “when you’re in grief, you don’t  chose who to cry for you,” Gombe stated.

“I was shocked to hear that from him.”

Gombe said the only time we were close to prosecuting corrupt officials in sports was when the EFCC arraigned Sani Lulu, Amanze Uchegbulam, and Bolaji Ojo Oba, but the then Sports minister was only interested in removing Sani Lulu and not in sending them to prison.

The former Gombe State Football Association chairman frowned at the inability of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to use FIFA subventions to resuscitate all the aging facilities in the country due to corruption

“You’ll be shocked to see how countries like Gambia, Senegal, Morocco, and Egypt, used the FIFA subventions to develop the facilities  which helped them to improve the standards of the game.

It should be recalled that  Nigeria was banned by FIFA after its auditors found out that the NFF could not account for the eight hundred thousand dollars.