Edo Earmarks N120m For Games

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Edo State government has approved the sum of N120 million for the state’s participation at the forthcoming 18th National Sports Festival billed to hold in Lagos State later this month,the amount is meant for the procurement of athletes’ and officials’ kits as well as for the event proper.

Some of the athletes and officials who spoke on the development urged the government to quickly facilitate the release of the fund to effect camping of the athletes for the battle to be faced at the festival.

The athletes however, expressed their displeasure at the manner the state government has been handling the state’s preparation over the years.

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This, they said, accounted for the dismal outing of the contingent at the zonal elimination held in Yenagoa, where they managed to qualify from one team sport event.

Consequently, they said that something drastic has to be done if they want the state to perform well at the Eko 2012.

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