MINISTER OF SPORT MAKES ANOTHER ENGLISH BLUNDER

The Minister for Youths and Sports
Development Solomon Dalung in his bid to justify how properly his ministry spent funds allocated to it says ‘funds spended are well spended’.




The House of Representatives committee on sports summoned Dalung and other officials to appear before it in a bid to tackle pending issues on disbursement of funds to the various federations.



In a video posted by Channels Television, the sports minister who has been at the heart of public criticism lately denied all allegations that his ministry is corrupt.



“Before we left for Rio (Olympics), we
wrote and requested for the release of
monies appropriated for in the budget
and it has not been released for the
federations.


“450million (Naira) was appropriated for the Olympics and we spent far far far beyond that; so monies that were given to the federation could not have been monies meant for Olympics,” Dalung stated.



The statement did augur well with some
members of the committee who believe
the sports ministry should not have spent more than the provisions in the budget.


"It is a serious matter, because he is
spending outside the confines of the
approval given by the national assembly," says Danburam Nuhu a member of the Senate committee on sports.



Dalung replied: “The funds ‘spended were properly spended’ because we got them from intervention funds from Mr.
President.” Chairman of the committee Bukar Lawal however advised that the sports ministry must re-appear before the committee at a later date.



“You make sure that when next you are
here, you give us documents that are
properly guided because we will not
consider the 2017 budget until we are
through with the 2016 budget and that is the procedure,” he charged.



Recall that Dalung made an unbelievable blunder while addressing the press about the stranded U-23 team at an airport in Atlanta in August.



The minister who was trying to defend
the fact coach Samson Siasia and the
Dream Team VI's predicament was not
the fault of the FG said: "Our U-23 team
are suffering in the United States of
Nigeria."