The building player kritiserte the suspension by the Bonner basketball team hard. “If I have a polarizing opinion, is inevitable against the wind, understandably. To lose then, however, my Job is totalitarian, and a slap in the face to freedom of expression,” wrote the national players (30) on Tuesday on Instagram: “I have always believed, in the case of the Telekom Baskets the tolerance is the top priority, but now it is proven to me the opposite.” He also added that he was next to the activity as a basketball player “in the first place man.”

In the Bonnern Saibou was due to “violations of requirements of the current employment contract as a professional athlete” terminated, effective immediately. Accordingly, he used his Social Media channels repeatedly to Express his attitude to the pandemic or to the Virus itself. Saibou, who is engaged to athlete Alexandra Wester (ASV Köln), was seen together with her last weekend during a demonstration against government measures to curb Corona pandemic in Berlin.

“The clubs in the BBL are working meticulously on hygiene concepts for the spectators in the next season and on special labor protection policies for the Active. We can therefore a permanent risk of infection, as it is the player Saibou, neither to his work colleagues in our Team compared to other BBL Teams in the Competition to answer to,“ said Wolfgang Wiedlich, managing Director of BonBas GmbH. Months ago Saibou had already done some verbal misfires on this topic. As it is now with him, is unclear.

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