We will use sports to reduce poverty in Kwara - Alabi

Date: 2019-06-26

The Kwara State government is to tap and utilitise the potentials available in sports to reduce poverty in the State. The State Deputy Governor, Mr Kayode Alabi stated this on Wednesday in Ilorin when he received members of Team Kwara during a courtesy visit in his office. ADVERTISEMENT Alabi said the State government would give necessary attention and priority to sports to positively engage youth to develop their talents.

The Deputy Governor who was part of the State handball team that defeated Lagos State in the final of the National Handball Championship played 1978 stated that the state athletes would be motivated to spur them for greater heights in their career. Alabi promised that with the support of the people, the present administration would turn the current fortune of the state for better.

The Deputy Governor charged Team Kwara and Sports administrators to give priority attention to schools sports with the intention of tapping talents at the younger age. Earlier the leader of Team Kwara, Mallam Tunde Kazeem congratulated the present administration on their victory at the poll and prayed God to grant them good health and wisdom to pilot the affairs of the State.

Kazeem who is the State Director of Sports and Chairman Nigeria Directors of Sports Forum described sports as a unifying factor that bound Nigerians together irrespective of tribe or religion. The Team leader therefore called on the State government to give more attention to sports development.

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