CAMSA Set To Hold Students Week

Arrangements have
been concluded for the Coaches and Management Students Association (CAMSA) of the Rivers State Sports Institute Isaka to hold her CAMSA Students Week from the 21st – 25th of this month.
This was contained in a statement signed by the President of the Association Leader Yacob Ewelie and made available to Tidesports,Thursday.
The institute was built by Chief Alfred Diete Spiff and commissioned by Col. Anthony Ukpo, the then Military Governor of Rivers State on 31 May, 1988 and was rated the second best sports institute in the entire country, after National Sports Institute Lagos, followed by Abuja Institute, saying that, the institute effectively served the nation.
Leader Ewelie, stated that the fundamental aim of establishing the sports institute, was for the institute to serve the purpose of training and ensure the intellectual, physical and psychological development of our youth and create good sportsmen of international standards.
The CAMSA president, however, noted that the once outstanding and hallowed institute, is now a despicable, shameful and indeed dreadful sight to behold, adding that, the institute has suffered over 20 years of total neglect by past governors of the state and as a result, the facilities are now dilapidated.
He pointed out that the secondary school students now sit on the floor to learn.
“The institute is a sorry state to behold, because of its bad jetty, in August 2016 we lost a youth corp member attached to the school”, Ewelie said.
He thus appealed to the State Commissioner for Education, Hon. Kaniye Ebeku, to extend the rare gesture of his developmental effort in the educational sector in the state to the sports institute.
Meanwhile, the grand finale of the programme is scheduled to hold at the sports institute, Isaka later this month.
Dignitaries invited for the grand finale are Rivers State Governor. His Excellency Barr Nyesom Wike and Commissioner for Education Hon. Kaniye Ebeku, who will serve as Special Guest of Honour and others.