Thursday, 24 November 2016

Customs Basketball club cry for financial intervention



With qualified clubs across Africa already putting finishing touches to their preparations ahead of the 2016 Africa Men’s club championship holding in Egypt, the Assistant coach of Customs Basketball club of Lagos, Abba Mohammed says the club is at risk of missing out of the tournament.

Abba Mohammed explained that with the non-availability of funds for training, visa processing, transportation and other logistics needed by the club under the watch of Scott Nnaji who came 2nd at the FIBA Africa zone 3 elimination series held in Togo, hopes of participating at the event is fast fading out.

Speaking earlier today, he said he thought actions were already being taken to release funds until yesterday when he realized that nothing is being done.

He appealed to the management of the Nigerian Customs service to expedite action because the possibility of meeting up with necessary logistics and requirements by FIBA Africa is daily becoming impossible.

“I just understand that they submitted the file yesterday and the finals are starting on the 7th of December and I also understand that it will take the Egyptian Embassy about a week to process and issue visas. So that means if at the end of this week nothing happens, I don’t think we will have the chance of making it”.
 
He concluded that after the team surprised all bookmakers to qualify for the continent, non-participation will seriously affect the morale of the players.

“I must be honest with you. Already their morale is down, because they are not sure if they are traveling. I have been receiving calls every 2 hours on whether we are traveling or whether we are not traveling and honestly, I don’t know what to tell them.” 

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