Mr.Tony Oli , the chairman Anambra State Sports Development
Commission says that the state government plans to spend about nine hundred
million naira on the development of community sports facilities to enhance sporting events at the grass roots
.
Oli disclosed the initiative to newsmen at the state
assembly complex Awka yesterday shortly after the budget defence of the
commission .
He said there were two major capital projects in the
commission's 2020 budget stressing that first and foremost , the sports
commission would embark on the development of community-based sports arenas
across the 187 communites in Anambra state.
Oli explained that the sports arenas would be
school-based inorder to encourage
sporting activities in schools across
the state . He stated that the second major project in the commission's budget
was the Awka Township Stadium which he said would be renamed Anambra Township
Stadium after being remodeled into a state-of-the-art stadium to host major
sporting events in the state .
He said that the commission's 2020 budget content showed
that for the first time Anambra state would have grassroots sports facilities
to harness raw talents from the hinterlands.
The Anambra sports commission chairman said that no
community would be left out in the
development of the playgrounds stressing that the commission would go to
the communities to determine the school where the sports arena would be sited ;
that riverine communities would equally benefit from the project .
He said that about nine hundred million naira has been
budgeted for the development of community-based sports facilities across the
one eighty-seven communites expected to partake in the largesse while assuring
the citizenry of a quantum leap in infrastructural development in the sports
sector .
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