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By Joshua Anigilaje
A group of football stakeholders in Benue state has petition Mr Dominic Iorfa the Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Lobi Stars Football Club for financial and other related offences.
According to the group, Dominic Iorfa was reappointed the Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the club on March 22, 2022 when the club staff had earned the salary for the month, he collected the statutory allocation of the club and diverted the entire money for personal use. Until today, the match 2022 salary has not been paid.
The statement further stated that he forged a board resolution in 2006, opened a bank account with HSBC London with his family members as directors of the club: Dominic Iorfa, Jennifer Iorfa. Collins Iorfa. Susan Iorfa,
It was also revealed that the Vice Chairman has been operating the account for the purpose of diverting club revenues of the club for personal use, the same account was used to divert 500,000 Euro accrued to the club from the sale of Taye Taiwo to Olympic Marseille France in 2006 and other revenues thereafter.
The document further stated that, he diverted 150,000 USD accrued to the club from the sale of Tony Okpotu to a Libyan club for personal use, the transaction is on FIFA Transfer Matching System TMS, that record all players transfers. While he also diverted the April, 2023 staff salary after duly received the club monthly allocation for that month.
It was reported recently that the Vice-chairman sold two buses (32 seater players Coaster Bus and 18 seater technical crew Bus) belonging to the club without due approved procedure for sale of government properties.
Also stated that the coaster Bus was in a mechanic workshop undergoing repair in the hands of the new owner.
He was also accused of abuse of power, sacking staff of the club who were duly employed by the board without replacement without approval and has been diverting their salaries for personal use.
According to the document made available to Gongnews.net, he vandalized the artificial turf of Aper Aku Stadium and sold out to willing buyers and got the stadium unfit for matches. That singular action caused the club to be playing their home matches away from home since last year.
He is currently selling players of the club and receiving the proceeds in his private accounts for personal use. None of the transactions have reflected on the DTMS of the club, he has not paid some of the staff of the club for over 6 months but the government have made monies available for that purpose.
While urging the body to do is job conscientiously believing the allegations to be all true and urged the body to carry out their independent investigations to confirm the allegations as contained in the petition the document read.
