Super Eagles' Head Coach Stephen Keshi on Wednesday described the seven-month salaries being owed him by the Nigeria Football Federation as ``the lowest point'' of his coaching career.
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Keshi said this in Abuja at the Home-based Super Eagles' interactive session with the media ahead of the team's upcoming international friendly with Jordan in Amman.
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He spoke in reaction to a statement credited to the NFF that the allowances and bonuses the team's coaches earn were enough to sustain them. Keshi is being owed about N35million in salary arrears.
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Keshi however said the NFF has not done him any favour with the Super Eagles' coaching job, because he had done the job with all he had.
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``The lowest point of my career is working and not being paid for seven to eight months. I have never had this kind of experience before,'' he said.
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The former Super Eagles captain recalled that he was never owed his salaries when he worked with the Malian and Togolese football federations as coach of their senior national teams.
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``In Mali, they will never owe you. Your salary will hit your account before the end of every month. It was the same thing in Togo.
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``Owing me up to seven months makes me feel I am not being appreciated. It is like they (my employers) think I am being favoured in what I am doing.
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``I am not being favoured. Whatever I am doing here, I am doing it with everything I have and I need to be respected to be given my pay,'' Keshi said.
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He said it was unbelievable that he and his colleagues had worked without pay for about eight months out of the 24 months they have worked with the Super Eagles.
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``I don't like discussing about money issues and if there is any NFA member who said we can work for free, then I will want to speak with him face to face.
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``If they say we can work for free and that they are not going to pay, so be it.
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``I can't have my family abroad and I will be in debt because I have not been paid for seven months and somebody is saying we should not complain,'' the coach said.