On discovering the error, the world athletics body wrote to the AFN demanding the return of $135,000, which is the excess amount. “The meeting on Tuesday has actually given us a clearer picture on what happened to the IAAF money,” Ebewele said in a telephone chat with The Guardian yesterday. Don’t forget that the IAAF money transaction was done in 2017. Then, the AFN Secretary General Amaechi Akawo was already in Asaba working with the LOC for the championship. “But when the file got to the table of Tayo Oreweme (Director, Federation of Elite Athletes Department (FEAD) in the Sports ministry), she insisted that such requests should be made by the AFN secretary.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2019 03:56 UTC