The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development (FMYSD) said team Nigeria was properly kitted for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with the Ministry procuring a 9-item bag of kits for each of the athletes and officials.
In a statement by Acting Director, FEAD, Dr Simon Ebohjaiye, the Ministry stated that report being peddled about in the media space about the kits for Team Nigeria to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was fallacious and inaccurate.
The Ministry explained that “when it comes to kits or sports equipment for Team Nigeria, there are two categories: these are the general wears and the competition wears.”
It stated that the general wears category was the responsibility of the Ministry.
“The kitting of Team Nigeria for various National, Continental and International sporting events has always been the responsibility of the Ministry and this was no different for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics,” the ministry said.
It added that the second category of kits was the competition wears, explaining that “this category is the specific competition kits which are peculiar to each sport and provided by individual Sports Federation.”
The ministry also stated that it provided financial support to each Sports Federation as required and added that it was the responsibility of each National Sports Federation to provide these competition wears to their team athletes and officials.
“For the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, each of the Sports Federations procured the Competition Wears for their respective teams, in relation to their specific needs.
“Furthermore, in providing the General Wears for Team Nigeria, the Ministry leveraged on the Local Content Policy of the Federal Government in looking inwards to engaging an indigenous company, AFA Sports, to produce the general kits” the statement read.
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