Body to prosecute erring fans

The Nigeria Referee Association (NRA) are set to start punishing fans who engage in hooliganism in matches.

Nigerian football have been pledged by fans and crowd violence who beat up referees and disrupt matches but the NRA are ready to put a stop to it.

Chairman of the body Tade Azeez lamented the lamented the maltreatment of match officials during league games and made it clear that referees will no longer tolerate such behaviour from supporters anymore.

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“I must commend the league board for having the political will to sanction erring clubs this season,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria.

“And the sanction has further restricted hooligans that are everywhere in the country from further threatening lives of my members and every other person or touching them at all.

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“On our part, we are ready to go to the court of law to prosecute anybody.

“It is criminal to beat somebody. It is against the law of the land.

“And whoever is found wanting, we will go to any length to get the person persecuted as an association.”