NSF: Edo Employs More Than 600 Athletes

The Chairman of Team Edo to the 2020 National Sports Festival (NSF), Brown Ebewele, says the state government has employed more than 600 athletes for the festival tagged “Edo 2020’’.
Ebewele told newsmen yesterday in Benin that the state government was hopeful of making good use of the athletes’ services.
“My job is to put in place a structure for us to win the festival, and as far as I am concerned I have put that winning structure in place, especially with the employment of the needed athletes.
“The athletes are for the purpose of winning the festival and, by the grace of God, everything we put on paper as programme have been going as planned.
“We are familiar with the terrain, and we have done it before and I think we can still go for it again,’’ he said.
The former Edo Sports Commissioner however said he was ready to defend his actions if Team Edo in the long run failed to win the festival.
“If we don’t win, I will give the reasons why we didn’t win.’’
He assured that in terms of facilities, he was confident the state government would be able to put them in place ahead of time.
“I think they will be ready between now and middle of February and very soon we will be talking about test-running the facilities”, he said.