Reps Query Minister Over N2.65bn Allocation For Abuja National Stadium’s Solar Light, Perimeter Fencing

The Home of Representatives committee on sports activities has queried the minister of sports activities improvement, Senator John Owan-Enoh, over the allocation of bogus N2.65billion within the 2024 finances of the Ministry for perimeter fencing, photo voltaic road gentle for bundle A&B and restore of metal cable construction/roof membrane on the Most important Bowl and Velodrome of the Moshood Abiola Nationwide Stadium Abuja.

The chairman of the committee, Hon.Kabiru Amadu, grilled the Minister throughout an interface assembly of the committee with the minister and different officers of the Ministry of Sports activities Growth on the Nationwide Meeting in Abuja, Abuja.

The lawmaker famous that the Minister was solely fascinated by numerating the challenges going through the Ministry with out declaring any single achievement of the Ministry below his watch.

“Hon Minister, what you might have mentioned up to now have been about your challenges. Are you able to inform us the achievements of your Ministry within the final one 12 months and in addition throw extra gentle on the N500 million for photo voltaic road gentle for Nationwide Stadium, Abuja, N1,7billion for perimeter fencing additionally for the stadium and different finances allocations for the stadium, so we are able to perceive higher,” Amadu queried.

Responding, Senator Enoh mentioned the 2024 finances implementation remains to be ongoing and advised the lawmakers that since his assumption because the sports activities minister and subsequent relocation of his workplace to the Moshood Abiola Nationwide Stadium introduced stay to the stadium which hitherto was like a graveyard.

The Minister John Owan-Enoh who oversee one of many Crew Nigeria’s worst performances on the Paris 2024 Olympics the place the nation recorded zero medal after spending a whopping N9bilion, listed the concession of the Nationwide Stadium in Surulere,Lagos and the passage of the Nationwide Anti-Doping Invoice by the each chambers of the Nationwide Meeting as his main achievement as sports activities minister below President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led authorities.

“As one of many issues my management because the Minister has been in a position to accomplish aside from the Anti-Doping invoice which we weren’t in a position to obtain for a few years, is signing off the memo to cupboard workplace to present closing endorsement to the Nationwide Stadium Lagos concession. I’ve pursued it with seals and keenness as a result of I didn’t suppose that the ability positioned the place it’s now ought to stay within the state it’s presently characterised in,” Senator Mentioned.