Nigeria Players Union oppose decision by LMC to exclude Giwa FC players on loan at other clubs from playing

The Nigeria Players Union, officially called the National Association of Nigeria Professional Footballers has lashed out at an order that players of Giwa FC on loan at other clubs should no longer be used by the clubs saying it is discriminatory and against the rules of both FIFA and the league.

Giwa FC players were loaned out to other clubs after the club was expelled from the league by the LMC, but after a court order was made this week reinstating the club back to the league, Giwa FC players on loan at other clubs have been asked to stop playing for their clubs.

According to the players Union, stopping the players from playing on loan at their new clubs is denying the players of their daily bread and is a breach of FIFA's rules.

“The LMC decision to exclude players procured on the expulsion of Giwa FC, from playing for their new clubs, while the league continues without them is in itself highly discriminatory and a flagrant breach of both FIFA statute and its own NPFL Framework. ( See Article 3,4, 14 (i) 15 (c & e) and 4 of the FIFA Statute and The Preamble to the NPFL frame work 2016),” read the statement signed by the union’s legal adviser Malachy Ugwuanyi.

“The exclusion of these players from playing matches would bear negatively on their livelihood, as most of them will not be paid, and are technically rendered club less by this directive.

“Whatever events that led to this “policy summersault” was never the fault of these players, since their contract with Giwa FC became “RES EXTINTA”.