Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare has expressed the Federal Government’s condemnation in clear terms, of a story emanating from a foreign media outlet that a British kit company had to come to the rescue of Nigeria contingents at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
A press release by the online platform said that a British sportswear manufacturer had to answer a Save Our Soul call from Nigeria’s Commonwealth
Games team after they were left with no kits.
In reaction, the minister, through his Special Adviser on Multimedia Toyin Ibitoye, said it was most unfortunate that such a malicious lie has been going around.
According to Ibitoye 300 Team Nigeria Kits procured by the Ministry of Youth and Sports were delivered over two weeks ago and have since been issued to all the athletes.
An earlier report from the foreign media platform had claimed that manager of a Sportswear firm, based in a town near host city Birmingham, swung into action to hurriedly produce the kits on the request of Nigerian officials.
Dismissing the report further, Ibitoye said all the kit needs of Nigerian athletes including track suites, polo T shirts, sneakers, face caps, back pack, trolley bag and shorts among others are available to all
Team Nigeria athletes who have since been wearing them.
This is not the first time issues bothering on kits for Nigerian athletes are making the headlines as it was also reported by some online media outlets during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games held in Japan last year.
Editor Paul Akhagbemhe
