Nigeria's sports league says last week's conviction of two of its competitors as far as concerns them in a misrepresentation conspire revealed by the Government Department of Examination (FBI) is "miserable and harming" for the country.
On 10 November, Emmanuel Ineh and Toluwani Adebakin were sentenced for moving huge number of dollars toward the West African nation as a feature of what the American equity division called "an intricate extortion plot".
Examiners said the plan included competitors from numerous higher-learning foundations in the USA, with African Under-18 triple leap record holder Ineh, 23, and runner Adebakin, 25, working piece of the connivance while partners at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
"It's truly miserable and harming, not simply to the picture of the game or league, however Nigeria as a nation," Dare Esan, a board individual from the Sports Alliance of Nigeria (AFN), told BBC Game Africa.
"This sort of activity might actually influence other youthful competitors looking for grants to American schools. It imprints the fantastic accomplishments other fair competitors have made on the planet.
"In any case, we realize America is a country with equity and reasonableness, so whoever is found blameworthy will be rebuffed and made to take care of their own decisions."
Following the FBI's examination, the pair conceded to infringement of the US code, having participated in unlawful exercises and having 'sent huge number of illegally gotten continues to fraudsters in Nigeria as a component of a bigger mail misrepresentation, wire extortion, and tax evasion trick'.
The two litigants are planned to be condemned on 15 February one year from now in Hattiesburg, and face a most extreme punishment of a decade in jail.
"Tragically, wire misrepresentation and other crimes are not restricted to sports but rather have turned into a public issue that should be fixed," said Esan.
"Envision somebody like Ineh, who's dominated an African [Youth] Matches award, to be up to speed in this? You permit yourself and bank subtleties to be utilized for extortion and choose to wreck your profession - for what?
"Seeing youthful competitors with extraordinary likely go this course in life is miserable and frustrating."
A government locale judge will decide any sentence for Ineh, who completed in eighth spot at the 2018 African Games Titles, and Adebakin, whose profession has not shown such commitment, in the wake of considering condemning rules and other legal variables.
Ineh is one of Nigeria's quick rising long leap and triple leap gifts, having moved to the College of Alabama recently.
An African Youth Games silver medallist and mainland age champion in the triple leap in 2018, his 8.16 meter long leap mark set last year stays the Public Relationship of Intercollegiate Sports (NAIA) record.
Adebakin moved on from the College of South Florida in May with a double certifications, a graduate degree in sports diversion and an expert's ready to go organization (MBA).
He burned through two years at William Carey College and came out on top for a public title in the 4x400m hand-off.
-BBC