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Katsina
Spotlight Football Club have been handed a six (6) Months banishment and will
cough out N1.3miliion for manhandling match
officials in match Day fourteen involving Plateau United in the Nigeria National League(NNL).
A break down
shows that Spotlight are to pay N300,000 for harassing match officials in
keeping with article 3.7,and an additional N1,000.000,00 for assaults following
the provision of article 6.0(1) of the League rules and regulations.
According
Lawrence Katken,secretary of the NNL,Spotlight were guilty of the same offence in their previous
tie against Supreme Court FC of Abuja thereby violating League rule 3.3(7) .
Other degrees
of punishment were also meted out to other officials of Spotlight:
1. One Mallam
Ghali Musa is to face an indefinite suspension from all organized competitions
by the Nigeria National League.
Reports
reaching the League body say “Home Tugs’ allegedly led by Mallam Ghali Musa
armed with knives and other machets at the prematch meeting and intimidated the
match officials, while threatening that the home side must win or everyone
dies.
The Match
officials were prevented from entering the dressing room after warm up-an, act
that resulted in the Kit Manager of Katsina Spotlight, Masa’ ud master and
Ghali confronting the officials who they threatened to stab.
2. Coach
Aminu Musa of Spotlight allegedly assaulted the centre referee and used
offensive language on the officials.
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