Former Edo State Director of Sports Brown Ebewele is unhappy
at the domineering influence of by Civil Servants on sports in the country,
saying their presence in the National Sports Commission and Sports Ministry has
sports the opposite side-underdevelopment.
Speaking in Lagos, he said, “Sports is in bondage as long as
Civil Servants continue to exert undue influence in the top echelon of
administration. They are the problem of sports in Nigeria and as long as they
remain in charge, we are not going to have progress,” he said, adding no
matter what is put in place to revamp or reposition sports can always be
undermined by this same people there.”
Continuing, the former Edo State Sports Commissioner “I would
like our President- Elect, who is an epitome of ‘change’ to note that Sports is
the first sector that his administration should look into. It needs total;
overhaul and reorganization because Civil Servants have dragged the sector into
ruins. As long as they remain in-charge progress cannot be made.”Explaining the
need for change here, Ebewele threw some posers “Civil Servants have made sure
that the core of Nigeria’s elite athletes who were sent out for training by the
country is jobless years after. There is no reason whatever that Innocent
Egbunike, Yusuf Ali, Henry Amike, Falilat Ogunkoya and others have no jobs in sports when the same
country sent them out to be trained after the competitive years. Civil
Servants have ensured they are not employed for selfish reasons,” he said. “But the issue is one that can be sorted out
fast if we truly want progress
"This is the only contry in the world with almost all
it's Olympians without jobs in sports or elsewhere. We have mortgaged
sports to Civil Servants and they have sealed all avenues preventing our
Olympians from making contributions. we need to change this seriously,” he added
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