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Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Engineer Sani Ndanusa has said that the era of dependence on the special grace of God to win sporting competitions has come and gone as what is needed now to excel is scientific approach.
Addressing the press at the just concluded 16th National Sports festival in Kaduna, the minister of sports explained that his administration will take all sports to the grassroots just as he noted that the idea of having sports at the zonal levels only must be discarded.
He said that a deliberate policy aimed at taking all sports to the grassroots was in the pipeline and when implemented it would impact positively on all facets of Nigerian sports.
He pledged that the National Sports Commission would ensure that sports committees are set up at the community levels and provided with the required sporting facilities and the technical manpower as he said NSC would work hand in hand with the National Institute for sports in making available the needed coaches in the respective sports.
“We must have sports desks at the local government levels for each sport. Such desks would deal directly with schools at the local government level. In addition, there would be academies to develop budding talents who would be discovered”.
The minister of sports reiterated that sports has gone digital as no sport can be developed any how but with scientific approach based on developmental programmes.
His words “We want to re-position Nigerian sports using sports academies because sports has gone digital gentlemen. It can not grow anyhow by the grace of God. You have to design a programme on how to move sports forward”.
He maintained that sports can not develop without the much needed support from the private sector, adding that the private sector can be encouraged to invest in sports only when there are benefits to be reaped from such investments.
Thus, he said that government has decided to woo private sponsors by dangling before them incentives like tax rebate on all investments on sports just as he noted that most corporate bodies do not know that there are such incentives for them to enjoy from government.
“Everything has been worked out. The Federal Inland Revenue Service has agreed to collaborate with us in the area of tax rebate for companies that invest in sports. Moreover, the law is already there. It has been there for more than ten years. We do not need to go to the national Assembly”. He assured
Ndanusa called for private private partnership, PPP, instead of public private partnership for sports development as he said that considering the enormity of responsibilities on the shoulders of government, the private sector should have exclusive right over sports funding.