Says the NSC plans to set-up Independent
Compliance Desk to boost integrity in Nigerian Sports
The Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Mallam
Shehu Dikko has reemphasized the importance of having men and women of high
integrity in the ecosystem of Nigerian Sports.
The Chairman stated this when he attended the
Integrity Symposium of the Integrity Group, with the theme, The Importance of
Integrity in Sports.
The Chairman revealed that an Independent Compliance
Desk is being put together in the Commission to further expand the scope of the
Country’s Integrity Compliance.
The Chairman said the Compliance Desk will also help
our various Sports during the Federation Elections.
” I personally believe in the agenda of Integrity
being pushed in this gathering and I am where I am today because by God’s
grace, I have been through different levels of integrity checks”.
” I believe so much in that word integrity in our
Sports and some of us have come this far because we practice that word”.
” We have to be deliberate about the issue of
Integrity in our Sports and those coming into our various Federations must
understand this and not see what we are doing , as a witch-hunt”
” It caused fifa a lot of Dollars to perform integrity
checks and we must have such a mechanism in our Sports here in Nigeria”.
” This is why this symposium you guys are having here
is in line with our vision in the NSC to refocus Nigeria Sports so that the
Private sector can have confidence in the system in order to bring in their
money “, he said .
The Chairman however charged the Sporting Media to
also be more responsive with their reportage of the Country’s Sports, because
unnecessary negative reportage has a way of demarketing the system and
portraying the Sports in bad light.
The NSC Chairman however assured the Organisers of the
Commission’s support to expand the symposium, where the Presidents of the
various Sporting Federations and more stakeholders will be part of it .
The highlight of the event was the Presentation of an
Integrity plaque to the NSC Chairman by the Organisers, for all his outstanding
achievements in Nigerian Sports, having passed different levels of Integrity
test both locally and Internationally by both CAF and FIFA.
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