Friday, 19 August 2016

Dalung fantastically condemned, as kits arrived 3 days to the end of Rio 2016

Rio Team Nigeria

Team Nigeria managed to take delivery of their long awaited Olympic kits, just 3 days to the end of the 2016 Summer Olympics, after most of the nation’s athletes had already concluded their events, while some had gone back to their various bases. Thus, the kits will no longer serve their purpose, as tax payers money has been wasted on them already.


According to a source from the Athletics Federation of Nigeria: “I have never experienced this in my years in sports. Money meant for the Games was held tightly by ministry officials and they were just releasing money piecemeal. We had to buy kits on our own while some athletes competed in their personal kits.”

One could recall how Team Nigeria participated in the match past with their warm-up track suits, during the opening ceremony, as according to the Ministry of Sports, the official uniform could not arrive on time for the ceremony.

This act of gross negligence which resulted into an embarrassing situation has attracted a lot of condemnation from Nigerians within and outside the country. As if that was not enough, the so called sports minister in the person of Solomon Dalung, defended his wolf failure in his saying that even South African representatives at the Olympics appeared in their track suits at the opening ceremony.

One then ask, why do our public office holders always degrade themselves by swiftly using failed scenarios from other countries who are even better than them in so many instances to justify their incompetence, but will never emulate the areas of success of same countries to improve on themselves?


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