Following
the invasion of the court by supporters of Gombe Bulls during the Match 32 game between them and visiting Mark
Mentors in on April 25, 2014, the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF,
has fined the host team the sum of N150,000 with a strong warning to them to ensure that
such act ion never re-occurs.
The
Federation in a statement said that it took the decision based on the “unlawful
disruption of the game by way of invasion of the playing court by (Gombe Bull’s)
supporters as well as an attempted physical assault of one of the match
referees.”
Stressing
that the DSTv Basketball League has no tolerance for any form of violence or
hooliganism, the NBBF warned the club that it “will enforce, without fear or
favour, severe sanctions to checkmate such tendencies.”
The
statement added that Gombe Bulls are now placed on notice and that such actions shall not be tolerated from its
supporters or anyone connected to it and will without hesitation, “banish your
team to play its home games away at a neutral venue acceptable to the
federation or outrightly ban your team from the league to serve as example to
teams that employ unfair, unlawful and unacceptable tactics to win games at
home.”
This is the
third club to be sanctioned by the NBBF for acts capable of disrupting the DSTv
Premier League after Royal Hoopers of Port Harcourt and Niger Potters of Minna.
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