MOC, Technical Committee Embark On Final Facilities Inspection For Eko 2012

The Main Organisation Committee (MOC) and the technical committee for the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012 will on Thursday November 1 embark on final inspection of facilities for the sporting fiesta.

According to the Secretary General, Local Organising Committee (LOC), Kweku Tandoh, the final inspection of venues that would host the 25 events to be competed at the championship would be inspected to ascertain their readiness.

 "Come Thursday November 1, we will be having the final inspection of facilities for the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012.

The inspection is going to be lead by a team from the MOC secretariat, secretaries and technical directors of the sports federations that would be taking part in the festival.

Other relevant sub-committees of the LOC, venues and facilities, accommodation and welfare, catering and feeding and the LOC secretariat itself would be part of the inspection to all the venues that have been listed as venues for the festival,” he said.

 Tandoh however, said that on Friday November 2, there would be technical meeting, where all the observations noticed during the inspection would be harmonized.

 He added: “The next day which is Friday November 2, we would be having a meeting which would be referred to as the technical meeting that would discuss observations that may have come up from previous day’s inspections and we will also finalize whatever needs to be finalized between the federations, the MOC and the LOC Secretariat.

At the end of the meeting, we will come up with a final document stating the readiness of Lagos State towards hosting the festival.” On the state’s readiness for the inspection, the LOC scribe said: “I can say Lagos is ready because since last week we have been hosting various states that have been coming for the inspection as the new format that has been set out by the MOC is that the states come on their own at their own time.

But the states’ inspections have been broken into batches, while the first batch came last week. The second batch is this week before the final inspection and we have been embarking on those inspections with the states.

Also, His Excellency, Governor Babatunde Fashola has been receiving a weekly status update as to the level of work in all the venues and we can say that as at today we are already in almost every venue for the festival.”