In his playing heydey Taribo West was a tough-tackling defender taking on the best strikers in Italy's Serie A with his trademark shock of brightly-coloured braids.
Now the former Inter Milan and AC Milan player is one of several ex-Nigeria national team stars and officials on a crusade to stamp out the corruption eating away at the game in his West African homeland.
"Nigerian football is sinking, it's almost dead," West said as he took to the airwaves of a popular radio station in the capital Abuja.
"There's almost no place where you can talk out against those managing football because they have paid everybody."
- 'Corruption just killing' - =============================
"I am hugely disappointed with the federal government because it has accepted all that's going on in our football despite its stance against corruption."
- Whistleblowers - ==================
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