No VAR In NPFL For Now – Owumi

The Chief Operating Officer of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Davidson Owumi, has stated clearly that the League cannot afford the cost of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) equipment for now.
VAR consists of match officials who help the centre referee to make nearly perfect decisions during a game using film recorded at the game.
Davidson Owumi in an interview with newsmen said that each VAR costs as much as ($300,000), Three hundred thousand US dollars, an amount that is far- fetched and unaffordable, at least for now.
“In all these, we might need to have a second view and that is may be VAR but you know the cost of having one VAR is almost $300,000,” Owumi said.
‘It’s not an easy thing to come by. We are moving towards a situation where we need to give the referees a second chance. But again, Nigerians should accept that these guys (referees) are human beings who are prone to human errors. Though some of the referees might be funny in their decisions, at times, it is human error, at times, it is deliberate and sometimes incompetence,” he said.
Recently, about 14 match officials were suspended following their poor performance in the NPFL matches they handled this season.