Ministerial doping investigative c’ttee gets 3 weeks to submit report
Barrister Solomon Dalung, the Minister of Youth and Sports has charged the newly inaugurated Investigative committee on doping allegations against Mr Olamide George to complete its findings and submit its report in three weeks.
Dalung gave the charge on Tuesday while inaugurating a 5-man committee to investigate a doping violation incident which occurred at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India.
He urged them to establish whether or not the Nigerian government had acted in a manner to cover-up any acts of doping as alleged in a petition to the World Anti Doping Agency WADA by Tafida Gadzama, a member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria and to invite anybody suggested to be involved in the malpractice for interrogation.
“I urge you to discharge your responsibility diligently and leave durable legacies and stand tall in posterity. This committee will have documents made available to it which will serve as an instrument upon which it can discharge its responsibilities”.
Barrister Dalung explained how an alleged doping case which occurred in 2010 had lingered on till date.
“There were issues of doping in 2010 and a ministerial committee was set up which recommended sanctions for one of the two indicted persons. The athlete involved has served a two-year ban but nothing was heard of the one who held a higher responsibility of being in custody of the athlete at the time of the allegation.
“The ghost of injustice kept hunting the report of the Ministerial committee till date and this is the reason why this committee has been given the mandate to re- examine the issue and subsequently free this Ministry from the witch hunt of the ghost of injustice since 2010,” Dalung said.