Cross River state governor,Liyel Imoke has charged the Local Organising Committee for the 2014 National Sports Festival to ensure it organises the best ever festival in terms of its technical organisation.

The committee was inaugurated recently in Calabar and it is headed by the deputy governor Efiok Cobham with the state commissioners for Youth and Sports (Rarmond Obeten),Information (Patrick Ugbe),Education (Prof Offiong) and Health (Dr Ikpi) as well as Dr Bruce Ijirigho,a consultant to the state on sports among others as members.

’His Excellency,Governor Imoke has given us a marching order to organise the best Sports Festival ever in Nigeria and the deputy governor who heads the committee has equally charged us to take the assignment seriously to ensure we actualise the governor’s wish and dream’’, reveals Information Commissioner,Ugbe in Calabar yesterday. Ugbe disclosed that the terms of reference given to the LOC for the Festival includes that of ensuring that the infrastructure is put in place for the event.