FG Yet To Fulfill Financial Promise For Edo 2020

  FG Yet To Fulfill Financial Promise For Edo 2020 By Admin The dispute between the Edo State Government and the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development over funding for the 20th National Sports Festival seems not over after our correspondent learnt the state was yet to get financial assistance from the Federal Government as earlier promised. There were doubts over the hosting of the festival after the Local Organising Committee chairman, Philip Shaibu, said the state was ready to host the festival but lamented that the Federal Government was yet to release the funds needed to successfully hold the event. The festival, which eventually started on April 2 after several postponements, witnessed a scare after the Edo State Government threatened to end it abruptly, just six days after it commenced. But the festival continued after the Federal Government, according to Shaibu, the Edo State Deputy Governor, showed some level of commitment and promised to release the funds. A week after the festival ended Ebomhiana Musa, Project Manager, Media and Communications of Edo 2020 said that the FG was yet to fulfil its financial pledge. “Till date the Federal Government is yet to fulfil the promise they made to us as regards funding for the National Sports Festival,” Musa told The PUNCH on Wednesday. “Nothing has been paid as at today (Wednesday) but I don’t know of tomorrow. No fixed figure on how much they were going to give us but it was assistance.”