Nigeria’s Supporters club plans to acquire a Private Jet?
President of the Nigeria Football and other Sports Supporters Club (NFSSC), Dr Rafiu Ladipo, has refuted suggestions that the body’s wish, to acquire a Private Jet,is a ‘misplaced priority.’
Ladipo said that enormous money spent is being on its members for flight tickets to go and cheer the national teams during their international engagements, which informed the idea of acquiring a Private Jet.
On most occasions the Supporters club, have to join the Nigerian Football Federation’s delegation, to go and cheer the various national teams; sometimes arriving late at some of the competitions.
But Ladipo is of the opinion that getting a private Jet, would help them cut cost, and the huge amount they spend on tickets could be diverted into getting their own Jet.
“The supporters club is an outfit that travels all the time with the country’s national teams, and you can imagine a situation where about 300 members are travelling for a competition,” Ladipo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
“It involves a lot of money when we embark on such trips 20 to 30 times in a year, so we thought it wise to lease a plane that will be on ground to be taking us on our various trips.”
“We are not just going to keep it there for only our trips, because we are aware of other expenses like the parking charges and so on,” he added.
“If we are able to get it, we will equally use it to carry passengers; it is only when we need it that we will demand for it to take us on our trips,’’ he said.
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