The Minister of Youths and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung,
has said that he regrets the embarrassment caused Nigeria by a letter which
directed Nigerian athletes going to the Olympic Games in Rio to buy their own
air tickets
.
The minister claimed
that the said letter was not from the ministry and vowed to investigate the
writer. He disclosed this in a statement signed by his media aide, Nneka
Anibeze, which was posted on his Facebook account.
Barrister Dalung stated that the Director, High Performance,
Angie Taylor has been saddled with the responsibility of arranging for the
flights and movement of the foreign based athletes to and from Rio.
“We did not write any mail asking athletes to pay their way
to Rio. As the overseers of sports in the country, it is our duty to take care
of all our athletes.
The letter did not come from us and we will investigate
the writer of that letter.
It does not represent our stand concerning the
movement of athletes to Rio and the writer or anybody asking athletes to buy
their tickets to Rio will be investigated.
We ask Nigerians and athletes in
particular to disregard the mail” Dalung said.
He urged athletes to
remain focused on their build-up to the Rio games.
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