THE COMMINUQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE CONGRESS HELD ON 3RD SEPTEMBER 2019.BY SPORTS WRITERS ASOCIATION OF NIGERIA ,SWAN, KANO STATE CHAPTER.
In compliance with the provisions of SWAN statues Kano state chapter of the association meet and having deliberated and fulfilled the required congressional conditions resolved as follows.
1.The august body appealed to Kano state governor, Dr Abdulahi Umar Ganduje to appoint a seasoned sports technocrat to the position of commissioner for sports, in his expected state cabinet.
2.Congress further urge the state governor to considerable direct the recruitment of Physical and Health Education teachers, during the incoming recruitment of school teachers.
3.Kano sports writers called on the state government to revive the now defunct school sports competition, explaining that if revived, the competition would incite the discovery and nurturing of fresh sports talents, across board.
4.SWAN, Kano state chapter task Kano state government to order back to site, the contractors who have allegedly abandoned ongoing sports projects across the state.
- Congress charge Kano state government not to hesitate in revoking the contracts that were abandoned by contractors. Noting specifically its concern over the abandonment of construction works at Kofar Naisa sports complex located along BUK road, Kano.
6.The body disclose worries over the snail pace approach to the prior plans to ensure the participation of the state contingent at the 2019 edition of the annual National Youth Games,NYG owing to sluggishness in the disbursing of funds. Which it said could impair the performance of Team Kano(2) billed to depart for Ilorin to hoist Kano flag at the games.
7.SWAN,Kano called on sports authorities to step up efforts towards endearing women to take liken more with sports.
8.Congress urge sports writers to take to the conduct of their practice in tandem with laid ethical values to avoid been liable of professional misconduct.
9.Congress advise the national leadership of SWAN not to derail from complying with SWAN statues in the course of discharging its duties. Further, congress review the extant laws promulgated to regulate the conduct of elections into national offices of the body, the body agreed that the issues raised should be passéd onto SWAN/NECO for consideration and possible amendments.
10.The august gathering decry the attempt to distort/cripple the flow of sports information by some head of media institutions in the state, alleging that some media organizations have sanctioned sports show or resort to the reduction of the time allotted to the broadcast of sports programmes calling for a reverse of this verdict by the affected media egg heads.
11.Congress congratulated Kano Pillars football for wining the 2019 edition of the Aiteo cup, while noting that the early ouster of Sai Masu Gida from the CAF champions league is an educating template, which should be used to learn the terrain, with the hope that the team would learn from the error and proceed to launch a fanciful continental campaign next season.
Signed
Abdulgafar Oladimeji.
Chairman.
Communiqué Committee.