Former Spokesman of Nigerian Airways, Chris Aligbe has called for the domestication of the law of the Nigeria Football Federation at the National Assembly to prevent persons from taking the football-governing body to civil courts in Nigeria.
Aligbe said to forestall this trend a bill should be sent by any stakeholder in the sporting press or NFF to the National Assembly to enact a law preventing a civil court from hearing such suits.
Noting that FIFA’s statutes frowned at football matters being taken to civil court, Aligbe said that frequent recourse to civil courts has made Nigeria a laughing stock amongst the comity of football nations, adding that the world was tired of the charade playing out in the country.
The Managing Director of Belujane Konsult added that with the domestication of the NFF law in the National Assembly, the era of going to civil courts would be long gone in the football fraternity.
“The constant recourse to civil courts to settle football disputes will be a thing of the past if there is a law from the National Assembly preventing a court in Nigeria from entertaining disputes arising in sports, especially football, as the only appropriate quarter for such disputes is the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
“We need to get our acts in order and the only way out is to do the needful so that we would not be the laughing stock of the world and avoid any FIFA ban flowing from the interference of a civil court in Nigeria with the affairs of NFF”, added Aligbe.
If it is domesticated, the ordinary law courts will not have jurisdiction to entertain football disputes. The courts will throw such matters out on grounds of lack of jurisdiction.
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