The Director General of the National Institute for Sports (NIS), Comrade Philip Shaibu, has promised to implement the recommendations of the 10-year road map for the revitalisation of Nigerian sports.
The DG made the pledge while receiving the report of the Ahmed Musa Kida-led 32-man Advisory Committee, which submitted its report at NIS Abuja’s office on Tuesday.
Shaibu commended the committee for its dedication and comprehensive work, as he assured that the recommendations would be implemented to the later.
He said, “I want to thank the chairman of the committee for this report and to assure the chairman and the committee that this will not be another document that will go under the table or on the shelf. We are ready to work, and we will look at all the recommendations and we’ll see how we can implement them for the benefit of our country.”
While announcing that the Advisory Committee has been officially dissolved, the former deputy governor of Edo State said an Implementation Committee would be constituted and members of the dissolved committee would be part of the new committee.
”We will be releasing a list of persons that will be the advisory council for the implementation of this document and interestingly, the chairman will still head the implementation. He is not just submitting this report, although the committee is dissolved, but I’m setting up an advisory committee that will see to the implementation of this document.
”Those that have produced the document know and understand the intention of the document. When you take this document and give it to another set of people to implement, it becomes difficult or may die a natural death.
Shaibu also revealed the plans to decentralise the NIS by establishing zonal offices across the six geopolitical zones, a move he said was aimed at expanding the institute’s reach and impact.
“The six geopolitical zones will have their own NIS offices, which will be implemented soon. Our mandate is to position the NIS as a leading sports institute in Africa,” he added.
The chairman of the Advisory Committee, Musa Kida, in his remarks, described the report as a comprehensive document designed to address the key challenges facing the NIS and the growth of Sports in the country.
Kida said, “This document fills the gaps that have long existed in the NIS. And we sincerely hope that this report finds a little place to move the needle in the very long and big race that you are in, to revamp and revitalise the Nigerian Institute of Sports.
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