Onitsha agog for AFN golden league

 No fewer than 800 athletes including 400 students from about 64 secondary schools in Anambra State are set to participate in the first AFN/Anambra Golden League athletics meet that will hold today at the Rojenny Sports Village in Oba, Onitsha.
Anambra commissioner for Youths and Sports,
Tony Nnacheta said that the meet the first of its kind in the State was bound to set the tone for athletics revival in the Anambra regarded as a catchment area for the sport. He urged all stakeholders including schools, parents and the media to embrace the programme and ensure it success.
Also speaking, Kate Omenugha Commissioner for Education said her ministry would mobilise students for event in spite of the fact that it fell on mid term break.
Omenugha said a lot were being done by the government to upgrade sporting  facilties in the state’s schools as sports were integral part of the education policy in Anambra.
She called on wealthy Anambra people and old boys and girls associations to adopt schools nearest to them and see the way they can intervene in the provision of sports facilities.
Rommy Ezeonwuka, Managing Director of Rojenny stadium where the tartan tracks was laid said he happy that the opportunities in the stadium was being exploited.
Ezeonwuka charged the ministries of sports and education to develop programmes that would engender effective use of the new facilities that were being installed.

“We now have all the facilities here for all fields and track events and very soon Nigerian can produce athletes like Jamaica and America”, Ezeonwuka further stated.