Our sports programme yielding results – Imoke
JUNE 7, 2013
Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State says the state’s Primary/Secondary School Athletics and Swimming Championships, initiated four years ago, have started yielding satisfactory results.
Speaking while declaring open the fourth edition of the four-day championships at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar, Imoke noted that since the state’s aggressive and comprehensive sports development programme was introduced at the youth level, the state’s records at national competitions had improved appreciably.
Imoke explained that the decision to undertake the programme was borne out of passion for his vision to take sports to its rightful position, adding that those in public service should see it as their duty and responsibility by giving children the opportunity to succeed.
He remarked that one of the greatest things about the programmes is that the children representing the state had shown exceptional skills and progress in the past three years, adding that “stakeholders must not relent in their efforts to take sports in the country to its pride of place as well as get Nigerians to understand the need to invest in the youth for the country to be great in future”.
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