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The President of the Nigeria Amputee Football Federation was on television some days ago. The Amputee football national team has been in camp preparing for the Amputee Football African Cup of Nations holding in Cairo, Egypt, from April 19 to 28, 2024. This scenario is common. Whose responsibility is it to fund competitions, domestic and international?
During international competitions where the country’s flag is flown, the country’s national anthem is played, and the competitions are between national teams , the federations fall on the Ministry of Sports almost entirely for funds. For three decades, since independence, even though the federations were registered as private organisations of clubs and a few other major member-stakeholders in the sport, of equal representation on the board, there was always the government’s representative included in the board composition. The board doubled as the Electoral College, appointing or electing its own Chairman. I repeat: the Chairman was appointed or elected from among the board by the board members.
This ‘nomination’ was identified as interference in the internal affairs of a private organisation by some radical members of the board. Thus, was created a huge chasm in sports administration that has lasted 30 years without a clear resolution, plenty of friction, reduction in domestic and grassroots sports development, stagnation at elite sports levels, and ad-hoc and intermittent support that government provides different sports federations with international responsibilities for taking over what they cannot cope with for the ‘price’ of external funds that are not enough to do anything.
Of course, who pays the piper dictates the tune. That’s why Sports Ministers have been fighting back since 2004 when the rebellion started.
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