NPFL club facing sanction by LMC

Dolphins FC are facing sanction from the League Management Company (LMC) following complaints by a player on breach of contractual agreement by his club.

The LMC started investigating the Port Harcourt based club after Emeka Atuloma filed a compliant of non-payment of his salary since the commencement of the current season.

Following a conclusive investigation of Atuloma's complaint, the LMC has moved to sanction the club invoking extant provisions of the Nigeria Profession Football League Rules and Frameworks 2014/2015 season.

The LMC has therefore charged Dolphins FC with breach of contract with not only the complainant player, but with all its players following the club’s own admission via a letter dated June 12, 2015, that no player of the club has received his salaries  during the period which has exceeded the 60 days cap.

The LMC has notified the management of Dolphins that they are in breach of Article B9.45 which they must remedy within 60 days or be liable to the deduction of six points in line with provision of the NPFL Rules and Framework for 2014/15 season.

Dolphin will lose a further three points for every 30 days the breach was not remedied after the expiration of the 60 Days notice of default period.

The LMC noted that this decision against Dolphins has become absolutely necessary for the dual reason that the Club has not provided any satisfactory plan of paying the due amounts anytime soon and had also failed to provide the mandatory Financial Performance Guarantee as required by the Rules and Framework.

The purpose of the Financial Guarantee has been to safeguard the financial interest of players against insolvency in clubs as the amount owed players would have been drawn from the guarantee in proven cases of default such as we have with Dolphins.

The LMC further said the strict enforcement of the regulation will spread to other NPFL participating clubs that are not meeting obligations to the players and other employees whenever a formal complaint has been filed, investigated and proven.