June 25, 2021
By Mohamed Abu Conteh
Bet Salone Lottery Company has on Wednesday’s 23rd June 2021 boosted the Sierra Leone Athletics Association after series of cries from the Ministry of Sports in collaboration with the National Sports Authority.
According to the Nicholas Nicole the Executive Director of Bet SaLone they decided render such help because the athletes put up an outstanding performance at the ECOWAS games in Nigeria Kaduna. Nicole said the athletes therefore deserve more.
He affirmed that their aim is to help not only athletics but to extend such help to other Sporting disciplines in the Country as they want to change the narrative in the World betting and also to improve sports in the Country.
“We want to set the bar high and ready to support all other sporting disciplines in the Country, because l have the belief that with Sports a Nation can come together and we are looking forward to help other Sporting disciplines with better facilities so that young people will get more attracted to the different sports in the Country,” Nicolas Nicole said.
After receiving such donations from Bet Salone betting Lottery Company, Alhaji Abdul Karim Sesay President of the Sierra Leone Athletic Association (SLAA) said they feel some amount of relief after receiving the philanthropic gesture.
He added that the Athletes must exercise some amount of patience because the promise the Government made will be honored.
A total of 11 eleven athletes have benefited from the gesture made from the Bet Salone betting Lottery Company.
According to the Athletes captain “ I feel because I have been getting series of calls from my colleagues about the package government promised us.”
Amidst all the challenges they face the Sierra Leone Athletics Association athletes were able to make the country proud at the International stage.