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Corruption in Sports: Speak up, Williams urges Nigerians
Written by Patrick Omorodion
Saturday, 18 October 2008
After a long wait for the report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Sports which he headed to be published and nothing seem to be happening, General Ishola Williams has called on Nigerians “who love, watch, play, support and are concerned about Nigeria’s image through sports” to speak up to save the sector from vampires who have held it down over the years.
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In a letter he wrote to Nigerians and forwarded to Saturday Vanguard, General Williams stated that his committee wishes to “seek for your appraisal, comment and inputs to the Presidential Advisory Committee of Sports (PACS) report submitted to Federal Government through the Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC)/Minister of Sports on December 15th 2007 on how Nigeria can use sports as instruments of national empowerment and foreign policy especially as it relates to our present and future generation through sports and culture, tourism and all aspects of sports business.”
Continuing, General Williams said “During our committees work, we observed that there are no dearth of well written documents in terms of what needs to be done to restructure and reposition our sports over the years by well meaning individuals and various committees set up by the Government to articulate a policy framework and proffer solutions to the many problems that has made Nigeria as a nation not to realise its full potential in sports.
However, most of the reports have remained, fragmented, fractured and unimplemented either through inaction and/or unwilling political authority and lack of professional leadership and “wait and see” attitude of the Private Sector.
We have tried to synthesise and articulate the relevant solutions proffered by the various committees of the past and also inject updated and innovative ideas of our own especially as it relates to the Private Public Partnership (PPP) as the platform for school sports, youth empowerment and elite athletes programme.
Our committee do not claim to ‘know it all’ and that is why unlike the practice in the past we have decided to bring this report to the public square for all Nigerians both at home Nigeria and in the diaspora to read and make inputs”, he stressed.
He then advised Nigerians to feel free to “ make recommendations/contributions with an objective dispassionate and open mind based on the interest of our great country at the back of your mind with its teeming youth who needs an appropriate sports policy framework and strategy for better and more fulfilled life of fitness and rewards.
Bearing in mind that voluminous reports can sometimes be an impediment to implementation and policy initiatives the report of the committee has been organised in such a way that it has a short executive summary with easy references to the thematic reports.
Most importantly, it is this executive summary that was also given to Mr. President and the National Sports Commission (NSC) Chairman/Minister of Sports with an articulated and simple schematic Sports Policy Frame work with essential details only,” he concluded. The committee’s report shall be published on these pages soonest. See interview inside.
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