Olympics funds must be accounted for 'Minister warns officials

SPORTS minister and chairman, National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Bolaji Abdulahi has warned that on no account should the sum of N2.3 billion meant for prosecuting the country's Olympic outing be spent on any official outside the athletes and their coaches.Mallam Abdulahi told sportswriters during the closing ceremony of the .Catch them Young Programme of the Nigerian Volley Ball Federation, held at the Package B of the Abuja National Stadium at the weekend that the new thinking in government is athletes should be the focus of all international competitions unlike in the past when government delegation out-numbered the athletes.''Government has made the sum of N2.3 billion ready for the Olympics, and it is the new resolve that the issue of overbloated government delegation that used to be the practice is now a thing of the past. We would not take kindly to it if this new directive is flouted and we won't mind whose horse is gored when handing out deserved punishment to offenders,'' the minister warned.He recalled that the urge to meet the need of government delegation instead of that of the athletes had been counter-productive in years past.It will be recalled that president Goodluck Jonathan had frowned at the practice of jumbo government delegation to international meet with the London Olympic this month being be the litmus test for government to halt the trend.
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