Nigeria: Amos Adamu, FIFA Committee Member in Bribe Allegations

October 17th, 2010 | by: Bc Osunneye |

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I really do not know what position to take for now about this unprecedented disgraceful act as committed by Amos Adamu caught on camera accepting to collect $800,000 DIRECTLY and in return offering to tilt his vote in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup.

Do i condemn right away or wait for FIFA to investigate and take a decision? They say a ‘thief’ remains a suspect until proven guilty. Is the camera scene being shown on Skynews enough to pass judgment at this stage?

This to me, even if explained away by whatever strange method or reason, Amos Adamu should cease to represent Nigerian football. He is currently representing CAF on the FIFA board. He rose from being a sports director for about 10 years to become a member of CAF, subsequently FIFA. He is still enmeshed in fraud allegations as regards the hosting of the 8th All Africa Games, Abuja Dec 2000 – 2003 where he was Executive Director/CEO

Amos Adamu has been around Nigerian football for about 20 years and the state of our soccer further dictates that we can conclude expressly, he has failed. He just made some nasty utterances about ex-players last week which is still be debated on and now this. This incident has come at a difficult time for Nigerian football compounding the situation.
We were just relieved by the conditional lifting of FIFAsuspension and now this.

I tried to put myself in his shoes but just could not fathom it. Would i wait to be proven guilty or innocent? I don’t think so. I will do more than just resigning, i will rather go underground and have a change of name to reduce the shame. Another question is, do these people feel the shame? Do they care about how they are regarded and perceived, how they are remembered in history?

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Anezi2000

“Another question is, do these people feel the shame? Do they care about how they are regarded and perceived, how they are remembered in history?” —-

Amos Adamu mirrors the ilk that foisted him on Nigeria, a malfeasance he leveraged to the seeming vaunted position on the world stage. But, wash a pig, comb a pig, a pig is still a pig. That ilk knows no shame otherwise they would provide potable water, generate electricity, educate our children, generate employment, build, equip and staff hospitals, guarantee security of life and property and other supposed inalienable rights of a citizen. Above all, they would not collude with foreign oil companies to damage our patrimony. I am concerned about how their actions affect me and my family. I am concerned about how they continually make me feel inferior as I traverse the globe in search of the living they denied me in fatherland. I am concerned that they are so bereft of ideas that they would not build hospitals even for themselves. Take heart, though. Compared to the specter of a president of a sovereign state languishing in only-God-knows-what-state in a foreign hospital and two first ladies dying in foreign hospitals, the idiocy of Amos Adamu pales to the inconsequential.
Omoagege

Adamu is a disgrace to Nigeria and CAF. Nigeria should recall him from representing her and charge him for corruption with immediate effect. The pictures shown in BBC, ITV, CNN and SKY NEWS cant be fake.
Tayo Alawiye

Oh Lord, let every agent of the devil in Nigeria be disgraced, in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
philimon

No amount of vim soap person will use to wash the noise of dog that can make it white or clean. Already this so called highly pple in our country today, ninety nine percent are corrupt, bad eggs, swan soup they're.
Sscouser

On Saturday, the President of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), Sepp Blatter said the British newspaper story alleging that two Fifa executive committee members, Dr. Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, offered to sell their votes in the 2018/’22 World Cup bids, has damaged the credibility of the world football governing body.

He described the development as “very negative” for FIFA.

Blatter wrote in an open letter to his colleagues on Fifa’s executive committee that the Sunday Times’ allegation is a “very unpleasant situation” for football’s governing body.

“The information in the article has created a very negative impact on Fifa and on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups,” Blatter said.

Well, well, well, corruption by Football Federation members is here to stay as long as there is the “Government Interference” protection. Chicken coming home to roost?
http://malawi.worldcupblog.org sscouser

FIFA has opened proceedings against two current members of the FIFA Executive Committee to ascertain whether they have violated the FIFA Code of Ethics, and has asked the chairman of the Ethics Committee to act without delay to take all possible steps, including the possibility of provisional measures, should the relevant conditions be met. Investigations are also ongoing in relation to other FIFA officials who may have been involved in the issue in question.

FIFA also confirms that the alleged agreements between member associations would also be a clear violation of the Bid Registration document and the Code of Ethics. Therefore, an investigation has also been opened into the member associations in question as well as their Bid Committees. FIFA has again asked the chairman of the Ethics Committee to act without delay to take all possible steps, including the possibility of provisional measures, should the relevant conditions be met.
victor kakije

This will serve as a lesson to FIFA. When we tell them that most Nigerian football officials are corrupt, they wont believe. Before the 2010 world cup in south Africa, our officials did bizarre things: When asked to book a flight for the players, they paid for a 'flying coffin'. Instead of getting a hotel, they went for a mosquitoes infested motel. Some money was also stolen in the NFA secretariat at Abuja, Nigeria. When Nigerians complained, FIFA did not respond. Now is time to see the stuff FIFA is made of.