The Chairman, Senate Committee on Sports, Senator Obinna Ogba, said the
committee might probe the roles of the Minister of Sport, Solomon Dalung
and the Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) in the abysmal performance of
Nigeria’s team at the just concluded Olympics 2016 in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
Ogba who made who made this disclosure in Abuja, said a lot of factors
ranging from funding to logistics contributed to Nigeria’s woeful
failure at the games.
“My committee intends to invite the NOC to come and brief us on the
Olympics. Apart from the late arrival of our athletes’ kits, you can see
even our national anthem at the opening ceremony was the wrong one. So,
all these, we are going to find out what happened when we resume,” Ogba
said.
Ogba also criticised the football team for collecting $390,000 donation
by a Japanese plastic surgeon, Dr. katsuya Takasu, saying the team did
not know the source of the money.
“I don’t think it was nice for our country to accept such money given
the happenings around world now. Money is good but it’s not every money
that comes your way that you collect. So, I associate myself fully with
the President of the Nigeria Football Federation,” he noted.
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