Catalogue of woes, waste and rot! =N=2.3 billion yet no charcoal won in London Olympics

What a pathetic story of Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics!

The federal government must now compel the sports ministry to account for how they spent the N2.3 billion government released for the Olympic Games which ended in London yesterday.

We wait for the ministry to disclose how much they released to each sports association that presented a team to the Olympic Games.  Athletics, Weightlifting, Taekwondo (two athletes) Canoeing (one athlete), Wrestling, Basketball, Table Tennis and Boxing associations presented teams at the games. All the athletes were 51.

The number of officials was still unknown as there were many who were not accredited and, consequently, were not useful to the athletes. They stayed in their hotels to watch the games on television.

Taekwondo that presented two athletes was given over N65m to prepare while Athletics that had over 100 athletes but which they pruned to 28 for the Olympics was given N131m. Basketball which had to travel to Venezuela for their qualifying tournament was given N75m for all their preparation including the tournament in Venezuela. The rest of the sports did not get more than N500,000.  And yet N2.3 billion was released for the Olympic Games.