1854 athletes jostle for Ministry of Interior Games medals

No fewer than 1854 athletes are expected to compete for medals at the second edition of the Ministry of Interior Games slated for Kaduna from November 2 to November 7, 2018

Chairman of the Games’ Main Organising Committee, Mallam Alhassan Yakmut, who disclosed this at the inauguration of the committee in Abuja, said that the games would be a new ground for the ministry to expand the frontiers of talents developed.

“We are going to have 12 sports, 222 technical officials, 1854 athletes, 100 volunteers and more than 200 security operatives,” he said.

He explained that evens at the game would hold at the Ahmadu Bello stadium and Murtala Mohammed sport centre, while athletes would be accommodated in the prisons school and police staff college in Kaduna.

Earlier, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Dr Mohammed Bello Umar charged the committee to look back at the maiden edition of the Games with a view to improving on it.

Bello listed the committee’s terms of reference to include orderliness and proper co-ordination of all athletes who are competing for laurels in the games.

Others are to ensure that appropriate logistics that will enhance the discovery of athletes that will represent the ministry and its services at both national and international competition are put in place.

Bello said the essence of the game, which would feature 12 sports was to ensure that members of staff in the ministry and its agencies were fit to deliver on their mandate.