It has been reported that the
Nigeria Senate may probe Sport Minister Solomon Dalung and the Nigeria Olympic
committee (NOC) on their roles over the poor performance of the country’s
Team Nigeria contingent in Rio 2016.
The chairman of the Senate Committee
on Sports, Senator Joe Obinna Ogba says
“My committee intends to invite the NOC to come and brief us
on the Olympics. Apart from the late arrival of our athletes’ kits, you can see
even our national anthem at the opening ceremony was the wrong one. So, all
these, we are going to find out what happened when we resume,” Ogba said during
an interview with journalists in Abuja on Thursday..
“I could recall that my Committee invited the Minister of
Sports three times to tell us the level of his Ministry’s preparation,
particularly on funding and he assured us that funds had been released.”
“Out of curiosity, we asked the Minister of Finance and she
confirmed that funds had already been released to Sports Ministry only to
discover that it was not so. Is that the change Buhari-administration
promised?, ” he asked.
“I am speaking in my personal capacity that it was wrong for
our players to have collected the money. I don’t think it was nice for our
country to accept such money given the happenings around the world now. Money
is good but it’s not every money that comes your way that you collect. So, I
associate myself fully with the President of the Nigeria Football Federation,”
he noted.
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