The Shooting Stars Sports Club has been fined N5 million by Nigeria Premier Football League following her supporters’ attack on Ikorodu City at the Lekan Salami stadium.
The unfortunate incident occurred on Sunday after a goalless draw with the Shooting Stars fans taking players and officials of Ikorodu City Football Club hostage. The situation required the intervention of security operatives to ensure the extraction of the hostage players and officials.
Ikorodu City’s Director of Media and Communication, Samuel Bamisebi said the away team was “locked inside the stadium to hinder the irate fans outside from gaining access into the stadium”. Speaking further, Mr. Samuel disclosed that a fraction of the incensed fans destroyed one of the buses that conveyed fans of Ikorodu City from Lagos to Ibadan, Oyo State.
The board of Nigeria Premier Football League has found Shooting Stars Club ‘’culpable of all three counts for failure to provide adequate security, failure to ensure proper conduct of their supporters resulting in the attack on the opponents and throwing of objects to the field of play and referees’’. The board said this in a statement on Wednesday.
Consequently, NPFL fined N1 million for each count and directed an additional N2 million be made for the damage cost to the Ikorodu City bus.
