Sports ministry plans clean sweep of federation boards
The failure of Team Nigeria at the Rio Olympics may further push the Ministry of Youth and Sports to clear the federations of old members.
The sports minister Solomon Dalung gave the hint in a chat with The PUNCH in Rio, Brazil.
The man in charge of Nigerian sports was assessing the performance of the country and ways of improving the administration of the game in Nigeria. He stated that the reviews and reforms planned will make the federations more accountable to the public and equip them in better ways to prepare athletes for major competitions.
He said, “Over the period, we have seen that many of those in leadership need to move on so that people with fresh and better ideas will come in. We are working on a lot of changes and reforms that should see virtually only members who are ready to work and who will get into the board in very competitive and open manners. But definitely there will be drastic changes.”
The elections into the various boards are held after the Olympics although no dates have been announced for the various elections this term. Apart from the football bronze, all other federations returned from Brazil empty-handed like they did also London 2012.
And as Nigerians await the elections, the National Sports Reform Committee has strongly recommended that there should no longer be provision for the position of a government nominee into any of the federations. The current boards and the ones in the past had nominees of the government, who usually became the presidents/chairmen of the boards. But the reform committee led by Godwin Kienka has opposed the retention of such position.
The proposal submitted to the sports minister last month read, “There should be no government nominee whatsoever on any federation board. Also, no serving officer from the Federal Ministry/National Sports Commission and state sports ministry/sports commissioners/sports councils should be allowed to be in any of the boards.”
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