Three days to the end of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Team Nigeria has taken delivery of the much awaited kits after most of the athletes had concluded their events and some already back to their bases.
A top official of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria who disclosed this to Sports Vanguard Thursday, said the kits which arrived Wednesday night would no longer serve any purpose because “most of the athletes have left after concluding their events”.
He added that “I have never experienced this in my years in sports. Money meant for the Games was held tightly by ministry officials and they were just releasing money piecemeal. We had to buy kits on our own while some athletes competed in their personal kits.”
Team Nigeria had to resort to their warm-up track suits for the match past of the Opening Ceremony as the sports ministry claimed the official attire which was showcased before President Muhammadu Buhari during the hand-over ceremony in Abuja failed to arrive on time for the ceremony.
Nigerians who were alarmed by the embarrassing scenario condemned the ministry for the untidy handling of the athletes’ kits but the sports minister, Solomon Dalung, in defence of the ministry, tweeted with a post that even the South African contingent appeared at the Opening Ceremony in their track suits.
And someone is somewhere chanting 'Kwarapshon'! Oriegwu!!!
ReplyDeleteLMAO @kwarapshon
DeleteOh my dear country...Imagine the excuse, it's high time our government took everything serious amd stopped giving excises,we always find a way to identify with the not-so-good examples.
ReplyDeleteImagine the sports minister trying to justify this by citing South Africa as an example, what happens to learning from other countrieswho had their kits before the Olympics.
My sister I seriously feel like slapping the living out of that man!!!!
DeleteSee the mentality of people surrounding bubu, comparing themselves with failures. Xxbarbiexx
There was a country *smh*
ReplyDeleteI'm flabberwhelmed and overghasted!
DeleteNigeria, I have lost all hope in you
Things like this will always happen. Nothings works well in a zoo.
ReplyDeleteSo you an animal?
DeleteGood for them
ReplyDeleteNigeria will always be Nigeria
ReplyDeleteEnd time ministry
ReplyDeleteUp Naija!
ReplyDeleteThey should just let me hear word. Medicine after death. Ways to chop money is what they are all for.
ReplyDeleteUnorganised country
ReplyDeletetufiakwa....i dey shame for them
ReplyDelete*standing ovation* wow! If our athletes won't win any medal atleast the kits would have had the pleasure of travelling to Brazil.
ReplyDeleteLmaooooo....that's how they showed up that first day in tracksuits like high school kids.
DeleteExcuses excuses that is what this government is known for. Dalung shame on you. Go and sell the kits. Thieves
ReplyDeleteSo because south Africa did it ,we should be OK with it abi? Did u also prepare your boys to win medals like them?
ReplyDeleteWhen are we ever gonna get it right?
ReplyDeleteSMH ... See Buhari govt.
ReplyDeleteThey will now carry it back to their own families!
ReplyDeleteNaija govt,i hail thee.
Clueless Dalung
ReplyDeleteit is one of the characteristics of a serious Government. my heart bleeds for Nigeria. so na so we go dey till 2019? God please do something before this directionless Government leads us to our early graves
ReplyDeleteAnd this minister will still retain his position.
ReplyDelete#SackDalung
ReplyDeleteDuring GEJ's regimes, Nigeria won so many gold/silver/bronze but in this Vuharia regime...square zero.
ReplyDeleteThere's something about Mr Dalung I don't like, he looks like a TOUT, may be he should get Jerry Ogbodo to style him one day.
Oh dear, What a country! what a minister! What an excuse...
ReplyDeleteIncompetence in the highest order and the fact that he has an excuse for such shameful actions is alarming!! Just imagine the rubbish. Buhari better make his way to these people and fight this Kwarapshon!!! Unbelievable! 3 days before end of Olympics!!!!!!!😤😧 moments like this makes me ashamed to be a Nigerian
ReplyDeleteVery Shameful..Giant of Africa
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