NSF 2022: States Lose Medals After Investigation

After ‘thorough investigation’ of the allegation that some states were awarded more medals than they earned at the 2022 National Sports Festival hosted by Delta State, it has emerged that most of the states actually earned their positions on the final medals table.
Rivers State, however, dropped from sixth to seventh position, according to a source close to the committee set up by the sports ministry to investigate allegations of medals padding at the festival.
At the end of the 21st National Sports Festival, some states raised the alarm that the number of medals awarded to them was more than what their athletes actually won.
This prompted Sports Minister, Sunday Dare, to set up the committee.
though they lost some medals.
“Maybe, next time, technical officials in the various sports federations will be involved in collating the medals for an accurate figure,” the official stated.
The Tidesports source recalls that Rivers State Commissioner for Sports, Christopher Green, was among officials, who blew the whistle on the alleged medals padding at the end of Delta 2022 National Sports Festival.
“I was told verbally that my protest warranted an inquest, which led to the discovery of some discrepancies.
“At that point, I was vindicated, but a proper job was not done because they only touched on two states.