November 1, 2021
The Ministry of Sports Ibrahim Nyelenkeh has on Friday 29th October 2021 disclosed that the government of Sierra Leone has prioritized five Sporting disciplines in the Country.
The Ministry of Sports made this disclosure at the Siaka Stevens Stadium hostels during a strategic meeting with Sporting disciples
The Sports government has prioritized Five Sporting disciplines are namely Football, ? Volleyball, ? Basketball, ? Athletics, Cricket
According to the Minister of Sports Ibrahim Nylenkeh, the essence of the meeting with the Sporting Association is mainly about funding to explain the position of the Government with regards to funding our Sporting disciples.
He affirmed that tentatively government cannot support all the Sporting disciplines because government is currently challenged and has asked the Ministry of Sports to prioritize five among the forty-nine Sports and that after the African Cup Nations government can beat its chest to support all of them in the Country.
He added that by next month the President Julius Maada Bio is going to launch the basket fund to help all the Sporting disciplines in the Country.
He urged the Sporting Association to show some understanding of the current trend in the Country.
He further that Sierra Leone is a football nation and that the government is doing all its efforts to help the National Team, he said when the nation qualified to the Africa Cup Nations the entire Country was in pandemonium as Sierra Leone came out to give a wan well for the Leone team performance.
According to Kenneth Brima the Director of the National Sports Authority
“One the reasons why we gather the Sporting discipline is to look into Association how they submitted their budget to the National Sports Authority and in retuned the NSA will submit those budgets to the Ministry of Finance for funding and in some cases, there is a delay in getting the funds and sometimes there are no funds here comes some Sporting will go out and seek for money in their way and some cases they will come to NSA to refunded that money Which in some cases they we never informed them”.
He added that the way things are going is not easy and that it is the responsibility of the Sporting Associations to inform the Ministry of Sports, in collaboration with the National Sports Authority (NSA) and by extension the government for official approval. It is a law that all Sporting disciples who want to compete outside of Sierra Leone must inform of the above.