Members of House of Representatives Committee on Sports Tuesday have asked the Sports Minister, Senator John Owan Enoh to disclose his achievements since his assumption of office and stop lamenting.
Honourable Kabiru Amadu, representing Gusau/Tsafe Constituency, Zamfara State, Heads the House Committee on Sports.
He fired the first shot at the Sports Minister that put the latter off balance.
At the Committee’s meeting with the Sports Minister, he was lamenting on the decay and vandalization of sports infrastructure thus shelving the question posed to him.
“The sports facilities are as old as the Federal Government, and the few available facilities have been vandalized,” the Sports Minister, John Owan Enoh started.
According to him, “the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja is like a ghost town. It is not a good place to visit from 7 pm as the place is always in darkness; the lightning there have been vandalized.”
He told Members of the Committee that the Federal Government facilities in Lagos, Enugu, Ibadan, Bauchi and Abuja have suffered a long abandonment; a development that resulted in the national team, the Super Eagles having their home matches played in Uyo.
Members of the Committee were told that if the Godswill Akpabio stadium had not been there, the Super Eagles may have been playing their home matches elsewhere perhaps outside of the country.
While lamenting the state of facilities, Enoh dubbed the National Institute for Sports (NIS) as now being moribund.
He, however, attributed the country’s disastrous performance in the 2024 Paris Olympics to the bad shape of the facilities.
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