Minister of Youth and Sports, Barr. Solomon Dalung has charged the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC to source for additional funds to complement what the government provide as Team Nigeria prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil. The minister who spoke in Abuja when he granted audience to members of the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) at the weekend however, promised to ensure that the nation’s contingent to the Rio Games were adequately funded.
While applauding the NOC members and their president, Engr. Habu Gumel for remaining united, Barr. Dalung however, accused sports administrators of lacking the initiative to discover other sources of funding outside government subventions as he also identified corruption and constant in-fighting among sports administrators as some of the factors inhibiting the growth of sports in Nigeria.
“The predicament of the Nigerian sports industry is, as I have earlier mentioned, struggle and competition for leadership position, the second problem is one that is endemic to the country itself which we know very well, ‘Mr. Corruption’, the third problem of the sports industry is the lack of the initiative to exploit alternative sources of funding.
Our sports have remained very primitive because it has relied solely on intervention from the government. And because of the steady and stable intervention coming from government, in-fighting is also very steady and stable in the associations.
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