Gambia: Sports Minister Jammeh Urges Peaceful Conduct of Championship

The minister of Youth and Sports, Alieu Kebba Jammeh, has urged for a 'peaceful conduct' by all schools and athletes during the 2014 national Inter-Schools athletic championship organised by the Secondary School Sports Association. Minister Jammeh was speaking during an exclusive interview with Observer Sport's Alieu Ceesay Thursday afternoon ahead of the three-day event, which got underway today, Friday in the provincial town of Farafenni, North Bank Region. Nine hundred athletes are expected to take part in the competition and for the Sports Minister, the Secondary School Sports Association is doing a great job in reviving school sports in the country together with Primary School Sports Association, which both fall under the purview of the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education and supported fully by the same ministry. "So I will like to thank the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Hon. Fatou Lamin Faye [the minister] for her support in this direction to give these two associations the environment to operate and revive school sports," he added.

According to Minister Jammeh, school sports is very important in the development of the country's sports in general because as he puts it; "it is at the level of the school we can tap and nurture talents in order to prepare them for national teams".

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