The
commission for youth sports and social Development, Barrister Wahid
Enitan Oshodi, has condemned the decision of National sports commission
NSC, to make this year's edition of National sportsfestival tagged 2014
calabar Games an open event.
The
National sports commision, NSC,ruled out the participation of amateur
athletes to pave the way for elite athletes who are representing Nigeria
in interational competitions.
Oshodi,
while speaking with sports jounalists, said the Games which wopuld
attract
Nigeria's proffessional athletes in the mould of Segun Toriola,
Blessing Okagbare, Funke Oshonaike, Effiong Edem, among others negate
the aims and objectives of the National sports Festival which was
designed to discover talents at the gassroot level.
While
supporting his position on the Games with facts, oshodi, explained that
Mercy Brume, whose first National Sports Festival appearance was
during the EKO 2012 Games where she won a laurel in Long jump, was a
heroine at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games as she won a Gold medal
in Long jump.
He
said Lagos State had disassociated itself from other states that have
complied with the NSC position and they have been paoching Nigeria's
professionalathletes in a id to win laurels and not to design a
comprehensive training programmes to discover
and nurutre athletes to stardom, adding that Lagos State will feature
amateur athletes who have been representing the state in both national
and international competitions.
According
to him, the pride of Lagos State government is to see its amateur
athletes competing against Nigeria's established and world class
athletes at the 2014 Calabar Games.
Adeyinka Adebayo,
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