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Bauchi Commissioner of Youth and Sports Development, Alhaji Muhammad Salees
By Baba Oscu, Bauchi
The newly sworn in Commissioner of Youth and Sports Development in Bauchi State, Alhaji Muhammad Salees, has pledged to revive all sporting associations in the state.
Salees made the pledge while interacting with some former national and state leaders of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and General Manager of Albarka Radio in Bauchi.
He said as Commissioner his vision is to make sports not only as an entertainment but an industry where youths will become purposeful engaged in various sporting activities that will give them employment, considering the fact that today sports is money making venture all over the world.
The commissioner seek the support of sports writers in the state to partner with his ministry by creating innovations that would be another source of youth employment when fully developed.
He said “Bauchi State Government under the good leadership of Senator Bala Mohammad, have big plans for sports development in the state, personally the Governor have a vision of getting youth gainfully engaged in various sports”.
Alhaji Salees assured good sports-loving people of the state that Governor Bala Mohammed was ready to do everything humanly possible to bring back the past glory of the state by hosting and participating in competitions to maintain it name as Mecca of Sports in Nigeria, where every athlete from within and outside the country will be wishing to visit.
The sports Commissioner also assured that his doors will always be left open to all those that will come and add value to sports development in the state.
He stressed that athletes and coaches will be encouraged to put in their best in the interest of the state in all subsequent state, national and international competitions and will be rewarded accordingly.
