Edo ready to host 20th National Sports Festival, Reps’ Sports Committee member says
Readiness
By Monday Ajogun
Benin, March 16, 2020 (NAN) Afolabi Olalekan, the Deputy Chairman of House of Representatives’ Committee on Sports, on Monday in Benin assured that Edo was ready to host the 20th National Sports Festival (NSF).
Olalekan gave the assurance shortly after he was conducted round the Edo Infectious Disease Isolation Centre by Philip Shaibu, the Chairman of the festival’s Local Organising Committee (LOC).
“Having gone round to inspect the facilities on ground, it is now clear that Edo is ready to host the 20th NSF tagged `Edo 2020’.
“This isolation centre is of good standard. It contains everything, and the area is to be demarcated if anybody suspected to be having any symptom of coronavirus is there.
“The workers who will be taking care of any suspected case are on ground and the place is having a standby generator.
“So, Edo is completely ready to host the competition and we hope that we are going to have a very successful festival,” he said.
While speaking, the LOC chairman, who is also the state’s deputy governor, further assured that Edo was ready to host Nigeria.
“Like I always said, Nigerians are coming at the right time. Nigerians are coming into a state that is the heartbeat of the nation.
“By the time they are returning to their bases, we would have pumped in the blood of unity, blood of peace and, at the end of the day, the hearts would have beaten well to pump unity and peace into our veins,’’ he said.(NAN)
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(Edited by Abiodun Esan and Olawale Alabi)