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Nigeria: NFA/NSC - Minister Calls for NFA/NSC - Minister Calls for Petition
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Vanguard (Lagos)
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 14 May 2008
Onochie Anibeze
Lagos
Sports Minister, Abdul rahaman Gimba is determined to make sweeping changes in the Nigeria Football Association and possibly the sports ministry.
He had written to the Presidency to permit him make the changes. And the Presidency, in return, asked him to give reasons why he wants to make the changes. Gimba, we gathered, has no confidence in the Nigeria Football Association and the top staff of his ministry.
He banks on the Senate Public Hearing on the Nations Cup failure to convince the Presidency to grant him the powers to make the changes. He has, therefore, been appealing to Nigerians and stakeholders in sports to write petitions to the Senate and come forward to defend them during the Public Hearing. The minister is determined to prove that he is not the only one against the way NFA operates.
"The minister feels that the more outsiders write on NFA and the sports ministry, the better his case against them before the Presidency," one source said yesterday adding "the minister has asked many people to come up with cases against NFA and the NSC."
Two of the contacts the minister made equally revealed to us their determination to cash on the Public Hearing and the support of the minister to ensure that they deal with the minister's targets and make changes in Nigerian sports.
Meanwhile, Chief Solomon Ogba, a sports guru and former commissioner of sports in Delta State has asked that the Williams Report on sports in Nigeria be made public so that real stakeholders can make input. He said this after he gathered that the report could be one of the instruments of change at the disposal of the minister. The Public Hearing is May 21 and 22.
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"We are all interested in Nigerian sports. That report should have been discussed at the last council of sports meeting in Kaduna. We all want to make inputs for positive results," Ogba said.
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