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Nigeria: NOC Turns to National Assembly
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This Day (Lagos)
6 May 2008
Posted to the web 6 May 2008
Lagos
Determined to change the manner of sports funding in the country, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) is taking the battle to the National Assembly to make laws that will compel multinational companies to contribute to a sports fund.
According to Tony Nezianya, public relations officer of the NOC, such a legislation should recognise the donations as tax deductible funds with a view to granting the donor organisations tax relief annually.
"Such a fund will be able to support sustained growth and development of sports in the country. Sports are important to development of any society committed toward human capacity building through sports," observed Nezianya.
The NOC spokesman then appealed to Nigerians of all callings to have faith in the national contingent to the 2008 Beijing Games by supporting them with funding to make the task of participating and winning laurels easier.
"Many of the athletes to the Games have performed well at the just ended African Athletic Championship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and other competitions, which are sufficient indications of how well they can perform at the Olympics," he noted.
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He said that the funding they will need to perform well should not be left in the hands of Government but that the corporate world should do well to rally their support.
"It is important to re-state that while public support is important, it is noteworthy that Government has always played the reliable role of a 'dependable ally of last resort'. "Government has always proved the most reliable at intervening to fund our contingent to major Games," stressed the NOC spokesman.
Indeed from all available records, no NOC Executive Board from 1952 to date when Nigeria was admitted into the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been able to raise enough funds to support the national contingent to high profile events such as the Olympics, Commonwealth and Africa Games.
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