LMC Fines Giwa FC N6.75m, Bans Team From playing at Home

 

The League Management Company (LMC) on Tuesday heavily sanctioned Giwa Football Club of Jos over acts of inadequate security at their match venue and poor crowd control.
LMC fined the club various sums of money amounting to N6.75 million and ordered the team away from its home ground for now.

This was disclosed in a statement by the league organisers on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Jos-based club is also to play its next three home matches at the Ilorin Township Stadium.
It will also play its remaining home matches behind closed doors, while its supporters have been banned from visiting other league venues.
LMC is an affiliate of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) which the club’s owner, Chris Giwa, is currently engaged in a court battle with.
The sanctions were however handed down in relation to the club’s Match Day 12 fixture in the 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) played on Sunday in Jos.
The club’s supporters had disrupted the match against visiting Rangers International FC of Enugu, forcing the game to be abandoned in the 74th minute with the away side leading 1-0.
The supporters had, among other acts, thrown objects towards the field of play, as well as the Second Assistant Referee, thus causing disturbances in breach of Rules B13.21.
LMC said the sanctions were imposed on the team after a careful study of the match report and assessment of video evidence.
The statement said that some supporters of the club disrupted the fixture severally by hauling dangerous objects on the field aimed at the Second Assistant Referee, forcing the Referee to finally call off the match on the 74th minute.
It said Giwa FC was charged for breaches of Rule B13.18, B13.21, B13.52, C9, C12 and C1 of the NPFL Framework and Rules.