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Momodou
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 Posted - 22 Nov 2006 : 16:01:41
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“OUR COFFERS ARE EMPTY”
By Modou Nyang
“Our coffers are empty”. Said Omar Sallah, chairman of the National Sports Council, when confronted with the issue of government funding of national sporting associations”. All the funds we receive from government go to pay for salaries”. “Our coffers are empty” he openly put to the delegates of the affiliate members of the Gambia National Olympic Committee, GNOC.
Sallah indicated that since the banning of cigarette advertisement by the National Assembly the council has been left with no other source of funding. We used to have the cigarette levy which was put in a fund for sports development but it was not even fort coming and since it has been outlawed we are now left with no other source, he lamented.
The chairman of the national sport council indicated that unless another source of funding is explored, funding for associations will continue to be a problem. He however called on sporting associations to collaborate with the council to raise funds and that they should not wait till the last minute before asking for funding for their national engagements.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 102/2006, 20-21 November, 2006
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