Sports Why There Was No Fund For Rio Athletes – Sports Minister, Dalung Opens Up

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The Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung has disclosed the reason why the ministry is short of cash which led which also affected the way preparations for the 2016 Olympics.

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The minister who spoke with Punch in Brazil disclosed that part of the problem he inherited was the practical disappearance of the sum of N3bn budgeted for the High Performance Centre designed to keep the athletes at their optimum for competitions.

He said, “I am aware that up to N3bn was approved for the High Performance Centre long before we came but it is a mystery how that money was used. I just couldn’t understand how such a thing could happen.

“The money not just to equip the centre but was also meant to cover the salaries of the experts we brought in work with the athletes but they found a way to spend the money. They wiped everything such that we are now paying the experts from our overheard cost rather than the money actually meant for that. It is as bad as that, I mean what we met on ground. So you can see how long this problem started

“It could have been a lot much better. So this is why we have to struggle with funding when it should not be.”

It was not readily explained what has happened to those entrusted with the funds or if any investigation was carried out to explain exactly how some of the cash developed wings.



Source: Punch
 
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