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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.
