The crisis in the Rugby Federation which was recently reconstituted by the Nigeria Olympic Committee & the National Sports Commission after a two years ban by the International Rugby Board is far from being offer if fillers emanating from the Federation is anything to go by.
According to the 1st Vice President Senator Isa Kachako, who has being abandoned and left in the cold alongside the other elected board members by the concession board members, "It is surprising to see the Rugby Federation with two factions even after the truce and inauguration of the unified board. I am not comfortable with this setting. I expected all parties to shied their swords and work together, but it seem like the Concession board members do not want to work with the rest of us, I as the 1st Vice President, is not carried along on any programs of the Federation. I only read of the events on the Rugby Federation on the pages of News Papers & Television. This is not right at all to say the least!
The two time 1st Vice President of the Federation wondered why people can not just put sentiments aside and work together for the good of the sports and the country.
“I am disappointed that after the inauguration ceremony of the new board of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation which suffered two postponements, the board have not met to discuss the way forward, and programs of activities for the Rugby community, but instead activities are going on in different quarters with two different groups bearing the same name, but operating in two different secretariat, logo, & letter head. This is not acceptable at any standard.
Friends of Rugby says they will like to call on the President, who had promised to carry everyone along on inaugural speech to bring all his board members together and chart the way forward for Nigeria Rugby for meaningful progress to be recorded in this beautiful game. He had promised a September date for the board meeting on Inauguration day, even though we all wanted an inaugural board meeting that day of inauguration, but we all had to give him his due respect as the president and the benefit of the doubt to wait till September. Now we are in November, two months from his promised date, and it looks like we are being taken for a ride!
We urgently need to address these misunderstandings in the administration of sports in the country. We hereby call on the Honourable Minister & Chairman of the National Sports Commission, and the Nigeria Olympic Committee President to call these people to order before it is too late again and the country image is dragged into the mud with international embarrassment!
Courtesy Ntiensi Williams
(Mr. Rugby)
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