Expert faults Dalung on Abuja national stadium
A stadium facilities construction expert, Ebi Egbe has faulted the move by sports minister Solomon Dalung to re-grass the Abuja National Stadium with a whopping N130m.
Egbe who was reacting to the minister’s statement early this week that the sports ministry in conjunction with a ‘lady’ have embarked on the re grassing of the Abuja Stadium turf said Dalung would only end up wasting government money.
He insisted that N130m can’t give the multi million naira edifice a befitting world class turf.
“My heart bled when I read that the Abuja stadium story as told by the minister. Who are the experts the minister is working with? What are their pedigrees? And what magic would they do to get the arena a grass A natural high breed turf at N130m?. I guess some people only want to smile to the bank with government money.
“In the first place, it is laughable to say that the problem of the pitch is the water channel or drainage. I have been to the stadium, took measurements, carried out scientific test of the soil and I can tell Nigerians in all honesty that water channel is not the problem of the stadium.”
Egbe therefore stressed that for the Abuja arena to have the kind of pitch found in places like Wembley, Maracana, Cairo International Stadium or the FNB Stadium Joburg, South Africa, Nigeria must be ready to spend money and stop the half measure contracts that are only meant to put food on the table “for the boys or in this case the girls.”