Edo 2020: FCT SWAN chairman lauds minister over cash reward for athletes

 

FCT  Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu

The chairman of Sports Writer Association of Nigeria (SWAN) FCT chapter, Bunmi Haruna,   has commended the Minister of Federal Capital Territory Administration for hosting and rewarding athletes who won laurels at the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival.

This is sequel to an earlier announcement by FCT  Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu at the FCT award night which held in Abuja last Thursday.

The minister announced a N400,000 reward for gold medalists, N250,000 for silver medalists and 150,000 for bronze medalists. 

Team FCT won a total of 37 medals, made up of six gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze to finish 15th on the log table.

Haruna commended the minister's gesture while seeing it as a welcome development. 

He added that the reward for the athletes will go a long way in motivating Team FCT to win more medals in future games.

He said, "I want to use this occasion to assure the FCT administration of the support of SWAN in sports development and coverage of events in the Territory. The Permanent Secretary who  represented  the minister at the event also deserves our commendation. I also want to give credit to the Director of sports Luka Istifanu and his team for the amount of hard work they put up in preparation  and participation of Team FCT at the festival. 

"We as the watchdogs of  sports in this Territory are impressed but there are rooms for improvement. To the athletes and officials I say kudos," the FCT SWAN chairman added.. 

He urged the FCT administration to give Team FCT more support to enable an improved outing at the National Youth Games in Ilorin coming up later the year.