President Muhammadu Buhari has approved funds for the 2015 All African Games.
This was disclosed by the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Mallam Alhassah Yakmut.
Yakmut disclosed this on Monday after addressing athletes who were training at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Abuja National Stadium.
The Director General promised to release the figure approved to the public in line with his resolve to ensure transparency in sports administration.
His words: “Mr. President has just approved the funds for the All African Games.
“So, as soon as we get the information about the exact figure, we will make it open to the public because we intend to run a very transparent administration.
“And I think by the time we finish computing all what we have done in the last three months, we are going to say how much has been spent on each item of the projects that we have executed, including the Federations.
“And I am sure that you have noticed that the Federations are beginning to feel the public funding scheme, especially the ones regarding the All African Games.”
Mallam Yakmut also spoke about efforts being made to support the athletes and the technical staff by approving foreign technical back-ups for the federations that have requested.
According to him: “We are taking part in 19 events and two other events that are actually on standby.
“If we have pockets of athletes that are exceptionally good like gymnastic and swimming, we will carry the on their merit.
“Regarding technical aid, in fact we are in global technical business and we cannot reduce ourselves to a situation that no matter how bad our coaches are, we must sustain and retain them.
“What we have done is to support the four federations that have requested that they will need technical back-ups from foreign countries.
“So, wrestling has requested for two back-ups either from Europe, the United States or Canada.
“Table tennis has also requested fat technical support from Sweden, China or Japan.
“Already, South Korea is supporting us on taekwondo and basketball has already recruited transparently.
“All these we are doing to make sure that we don’t leave technical opportunities unattended to.”
The 2015 All African Games is holding in Congo Brazzaville from September 4 to 19 this year.
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