AFN leads new level of lying via omission

*Shuts out Nwajei

*NTTF omits Oladapo?

*Handball forgets Glover

*Ebewele fraudulently listed as CAA Athletes Commission member

Sports minister Abdullahi...who used AFN to lie in order to gain inordinate advantage

In a very desperate bid to perpetuate themselves in office, Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) like some other desperate ilks shut out top Nigerians in the boards of international sports confederations.

The Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN) incredibly failed to list the name of Mrs Violet Odogwu-Nwajei as a member of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) executive board in the list of its members who are in the Boards or Commissions of African Confederation or International Federation.

Also, former President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN), Dr. Lanre Glover who is the Vice President of the Confederation of African Handball (CAHB) was seemingly forgotten.

It would be recalled that the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) had in an e-mail dated Monday, 15^th April, 2013 requested the federations to send list of their members who have been elected into Boards or Commissions of African Confederation or International Federation.

The e-mail which was authored by former national team hockey player, Tunde Popoola, as the Secretary General of the NOC also requested that the date when such member(s)
was elected should be stated.

Following the request, the AFN listed the quartet of Maria Worphil (its general secretary), Solomon Ogba (out-going
president of the federation), Dr Ken Anugweje (out-going board member of the federation) and Brown Ebewele, a former
technical committee chairman of the federation as members of the CAA commission.

In fact, in an astonishing bare faced lie, the AFN reply shamelessly listed Ebewele as a serving board member of the federation. A double check of the list of the federation members revealed otherwise.

www.gongnews.net can reveal with authority that while Mrs. Nwajei, the first Nigerian nay African woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal in long jump, is still a serving vice-president of the CAA, the status of Ebewele who is listed as a member of the athletes commission is fraudulent.

A double check of the members of the CAA commissions did not reflect the name of the former decathlete. So who lied in an official document to gain unnecessary advantage in this situation?

Dr. Ken Anugweje who is also listed as a member of the medical and doping CAA commission cannot be confirmed.
as if the fraud was ot limited to Athletics alone, a curious check on the other sports federation lists showed that in Table Tennis, the name of the erstwhile secretary general of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Banji Oladapo, was also
conspicuously missing. Albeit, he is still a serving member of the International Table-Tennis Federation board of
directors.
In fact, Oladapo has been in the executive board of the ITTF since 1997 and should be on top of any list from the NTTF
alongside that of George Segun who is the chairman of the ITTF Presidential advisory committee.

In Basketball, the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) did not list the names of Muktar “Malone” Khaleh and Sam
Ahmedu. Albeit, they play prominent roles in the continental body for the sport.

Malone is ironically not only the President of FIBA Africa Zone 3, he is also a member FIBA Africa Executive Committee while
Ahmedu is an active member of the marketing commission of FIBA.

God save our nation from the hands of the fraudulent persons who have taken over the administration of the game.