{"id":7922,"date":"2013-08-07T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/eagles-94-nations-cup-squad-call-on-fg-to-deliver-house-pledge\/"},"modified":"2013-08-07T20:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T20:44:49","slug":"eagles-94-nations-cup-squad-call-on-fg-to-deliver-house-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/eagles-94-nations-cup-squad-call-on-fg-to-deliver-house-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles \u201994 Nations Cup squad call on FG to deliver house pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By CitizensPlatform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The remaining members of the victorious squad who\u00a0 have yet to be given houses have called on the government to fulfil its\u00a0 promises to the squad<\/p>\n

Stand-in captain of the victorious squad of the\u00a0 Tunisia 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, Austin Eguavoen led three other\u00a0 prominent members of the team to the office of the Sports Minister,\u00a0 Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi on Monday to discuss the house pledge the late General Sani Abacha promised them which is yet to be redeemed.<\/p>\n

Eguavoen was in company of Samson Siasia, Victor\u00a0 Ikpeba and Ben Iroha on behalf of the other aggrieved members to see the minister and begged him to intervene on the players\u2019 behalf for the\u00a0 Federal Government to redeem its pledge.<\/p>\n

Eguavoen in his address to the Minister stated that\u00a0 “It is not our doing that the 1994 squad actually changed the face of\u00a0 Nigerian football. 1980 squad, you cannot just put them aside too, they\u00a0 did it before us, they won the Nations cup right here in Nigeria led by\u00a0 Christian Chukwu and then we followed the same feat in 1994 outside\u00a0 Nigeria that was what makes it a little bit different. And we thank God\u00a0 the present squad won the 2013 as well, it is a record.<\/p>\n

The Sports Minister however assured the members of\u00a0 the victorious Super Eagles squad that he would personally discuss their grievances of not receiving the houses promised them with President\u00a0 Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n

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