Salary Arrears: Okorodudu Begs Sports Ministry

Once again, an Olympian, Jerry Okorodudu, has cried out to Nigeria’s sports authorities over the non-payment of 10 months salaries since his engagement as a coach in the Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF) in 2014.
Okorodudu, fondly called “Jerry’’, who represented Nigeria in the Middleweight category in the boxing event of the Los Angeles 1994 Olympics, has a contract appointment with the NBF.
Okorodudu, formerly a coach in the NBF had previously had problems with the body resulting from an altercation with the then Director-General of the sports ministry.
The problem was taken to court by the ex-boxer, leading to the non-payment of his salaries and keeping him jobless, but that was resolved under Bolaji Abdullahi as Minister who also gave him the contract coaching job.
Okorodudu told newsmen in Lagos that he was appealing to the Ministry of Youth and Sports to pay his salary arrears for 10 months.
He explained that his salary has not been paid since March 2016.
“I have been working without salary for the past 10 months, throughout 2016, I got salary for only two months and that was in January and February last year.
“I was in Abuja in November to sort the delay in my salary, after mounting pressure; I was privileged to meet the sports ministry’s Permanent Secretary who ensured that I got the February salary.
“The sports ministry should please do something about my salary arrears because I don’t have any other job or source of income outside coaching in boxing,’’ he said.