Ogun State commissioner for sports Wasiu Isiaka has said that facilities put together to host the 2024 National Sports Festival will be adequately maintained.. The Moshood Abiola Sports Arena and Alake Sports Complex both in Abeokuta are some of the facilities renovated for the Gateway Games.. Isiaka hinted that the state government will seek private partnership to maintain the facilities.. “A swimming pool, for example, is a technical facility that, if anybody must manage it, they must have the technical know-how to maintain it, and that means that we are going to have a partnership,” he said during his interaction with the media on Saturday in Abeokuta.. “And there is no way you can bring the private sector to manage that kind of investment that they will not manage well to the level that will be beneficial to both of you.. Read Also:NSF 2024: Flamingos Coach Olowookere Counts Gains Of Participating In Gateway Games. “I can assure you that none of those facilities will be allowed to rot away.. “We have invested so much in the facilities, and the government is planning to ensure that they get real value for the investment in it. I can assure you for free that none of it will be allowed to waste away like that.”. He also disclosed that the state is planning to construct chalets inside the MKO Abiola sports arena.. Isiaka disclosed that be divided into three: the chalets, a recreational area and the sporting complex.. “We’re not just hosting the National Sports Festival in Ogun State; we’re actually coming up with a good and solid sport development system,” he added.. “Ogun will soon be a point of call as far as sports is concerned.”. By Adeboye Amosu in Abeokuta. Photo by Ganiyu Yusuf
