Why Rangers’ cash, land gifts yet to be delivered —Enugu commissioner

Enugu State Commissioner for Sports, Charles Ndukwe has explained why cash and land gifts to the reigning Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) champions, Rangers by the governor of the state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi are held up, reports Africanfootball.com.

Some players and officials of the Flying Antelopes have complained they are yet to receive the cash promised them by Governor Ugwuanyi and also could not locate their plots of land at the “Rangers Estate” yet.

“The process of government and the holidays caused a delay and even the land issue has a process – the Ministry of Lands has to clear the virgin land, surveyors have to work there, so that everyone will know where his plot is,” Ndukwe explained.

“This could take two, three months. What we should also know is that initially the land was meant for only the players, but the governor, in his magnanimity has even accommodated the coaches and staff. This is unprecedented in this country.

“Because of this amendment, the land has been expanded to accommodate everybody.

“The governor deserves serious commendation. Every time our governor says something, he keeps to it. He said he would give Rangers a bus, he gave them. He said he will give [coach] Imama [Amapakabo] a car, he gave him.”

Ndukwe also said that the team now have the cash promised them by the governor.

“The money is in the individual accounts of the players as we speak, everybody is now smiling to the bank,” he stated.

Rangers, it will be recalled, emerged champions of the NPFL last season which ended in October, the first time the team had won a laurel since 1984.