FIFA places 2-year ban on Amos Adamu
The World
football governing body, FIFA, has placed a two-year suspension on its former
executive committee member Amos Adamu after concluding investigation into a
proceeding opened against him last year.
According
to the football governing body adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics
Committee, Amos Adamu violated the apex football body's rules bordering on
loyalty and conflicts of interest under its code of ethics following "his
involvement in the organization of an event in 2010, while being a member of
the (then) FIFA Executive Committee.
Details
of the case were not specified by FIFA as Adamu will now have to stay away from
"football-related activity" in his country and in the World in the
wake of the ban.
This
is the second time Adamu is being placed on a worldwide ban from
football-related activities by FIFA. In 2010, he was banned for three years and
that led to him losing his position as an executive committee member at FIFA and
CAF.
According
to FIFA, the two-year ban of Adamu is effective from today the 28th
of February 2017.
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