AFN: Teaching athletes to be fraudulent

Sports Minister, Abdullahi...is cheating an official policy?

It was discovered that the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) is not a good institution to have growing children. Apart from being taught how to take various banned drug substances, they teach children how to lie and cheat.

You will recall the well investigated cases of the four athletes we exposed days ago, one of them was made to change name. The use of a third name was deliberate to confuse issues. Nowhere in Athletics championships have three names been a practice until this championship, again, by Nigeria.

When shall cheating stop as an official policy? Why must tis be? All in the desperate bid to win the African Youth Athletics Championship?  This is sad and a big disgrace.

Knowing fully well that she is over-aged, the AFN officials had to change her name. She left school in 2008. She is presently a graduate of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. Yet, she is 17 years of age!

Assuming she entered primary school as a three year old. Assuming she jumped from class five to secondary school. She would have been 8 years. She spent six years in secondary school, she would have left at 14. By this logic, she would have been born in 1994. By the same logic, she should be 19 years.

Coaching athletes to use drugs: It is certain that one of those tagged as a “coach” in the Nigerian team is red-marked even by the IAAF. He was linked to majority of drug web issues in the Nigerian athletics fold.

Now, take this. Let’s call her name Mercy. Mercy is the daughter of a former Nigerian international athlete. She was born and bred in the United State of America. Her first time in the Nigerian national team was the eve of the Olympics. It is coincidental that she was caught in the drug scam on her maiden Nigerian outing.

Was it coincidental? No. When she returned to the United States, she told the father of the source of the drug and it happened to be our friend, the ‘coach.’

Taught to be sex toys too: Who says the other athletes in the care of this ‘coach’ will not be coached to take drugs. In the same national team is the ‘coach’ who told Jamila (not her name) that she should come to his room to be slept with. That, world class athletes are slept with by their coaches to enhance their performance. The girl refused and till date has been shut out of the national team despite increasing her performance!