In order to encourage healthy living among its employees, Sen. Obinna Ogba (PDP-Delta) has on Tuesday recommended government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure sports development in their organisations.
Ogba, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Sports and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, expressed sadness that most MDAs in the agricultural sector do not give sports development any priority.
“Yes, I spoke about it because the budget of some of the agencies on sports is nothing to write home about. For example one of the agencies budgeted N27,000 for sporting activities for a whole year.
“What is N27,000 going to do for sports, you know this sport is purely for Nigerian youths and so I encourage them to vote for money for sports development, sports is health.
“And everybody is involved in sports, no matter the age, an ordinary sports canvas is sold for more than N27,000,” he said.
Speaking about the 2023 budget, Ogba said his main worry was making sure it was fully implemented so that it would have a favourable effect on the general public.
“The budget is not different from what we use to see, but how does this budget impact the lives of the masses?
“The implementation of the budget is key and so they must make frantic efforts to implement it,” he said.
