Fresh from participating at the Welsh International Cup, the Managing Director of Buruj Sports Academy Dr. Salaudeen Waheed has hailed the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) and Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS) for their crusade and efforts toward eradicating human traffic and child slavery in the country.
According to the well-travelled CEO, gone are the days when some shylock Player Agents capitalise on the desperation of some young players to travel abroad to tie them down to some wicked contracts with foreign club and in the process mortgage the future of such players.
He said that his recent rapport with these agencies has given him enough understanding of what they are doing to sanitise the system and called on all stakeholders to continue to assist them so that they can be encouraged to do their jobs creditably well.
“I think what the officials of NAPTIP and Immigration are doing in the area of curtailing the incidence of human trafficking and child-labour deserves our commendation and we should encourage them to continue to discharge their duties well.
“As someone who has been in the business of managing young talents for almost a decade now, I am in a position to say that gone are the days when it was so easy for some wicked agents to exploit players and dump them in inhuman conditions under the pretence of getting foreign contracts for them.
“It is good that before you take any under-age player abroad now, those agencies must be contacted. That’s what we have been doing at Buruj Sports Academy. We don’t need back-doors. We are following due process in managing our young talents knowing full well that if we groom them very well, their time will come when they will become hot-cake in the world of football and they will not need to suffer unnecessarily just because someone want to gain from it,” he said.
Buruj Sports Academy won the admiration of all at the Welsh International Cup in Cardiff City, Wales.
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