Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) Akwa
Ibom State has taken their yearly event to a new height by sponsoring no fewer
than 136 school athletics championship for training in Calabar, Cross River
State.
The athletics emerged champions
during their last two editions in the modem outs and techniques of track and
field.
Chatting with our sports editor at
U. J. Esuene stadium, Calabar, Dr. (Mrs.) Lucia Ituen who is the Uyo Zone
sports coordinator for Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN/AKS) said the training will
last for two weeks and that the training will produce athletes for the nation,
adding that coaches handling the athletes are all national coaches.
Dr. Ituen noted that all the
athletes are school in Akwa Ibom State even as she called on the state
government to take over the sponsoring and further training of the athletes.
Also speaking, the camp
commandant, Mr. Mike Ukpabio thanked the Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN/AKS) for
their determination to promote sports in the state, adding that the competition
have been approved by Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN).
According to him, “we should
appreciate Mobil in their efforts to promote sports in Akwa Ibom State; the
state government should help train the athletes by sponsoring more training of
this nature”.
One of the coaches, Mr. Solomon
Abar, called on the state government to come into the programme and sustain it
rather than leaving it to Mobil alone. “The programme should be a continuous
one so as to produce athletesthat will represent Nigeria in future”.
The camp captain, Emenim Effiok
thanked Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN/AKS) for the training even as he said that
the training is very challenging.
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