I’m not banned - Gombe
By Jacob Ajom Proprietor of disbanded Bubayaro Football Club of Gombe, Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe has said that the 10-year ban handed his club by the Nigeria Football Federation for complicity in a match-fixing scandal does not affect him. “No. As a person, I am not affected,. I cannot be affected because, I took all precautionary measures that could have forestalled what happened. It would have been against the principle of justice if they had extended the punishment to my person as only those who were present on the field of play could be punished,” Gombe said to our reporter yesterday. [caption id="attachment_405487" align="alignright" width="250"] Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe[/caption] He told our reporter that before the scandalous match against Police Machine of Bauchi that led to the inglorious 67-0 defeat, he warned them not to take the trip to Bauchi. “I started suspecting them when they told me the Gombe State Sports Council chairman, Farouk Yerima s...