The Minister of Sports and Youths Development, Solomon Dalong, has expressed readiness to declare full scale war against all kinds of financial fraud against sports administrators, revealing that he was a victim of the financial fraud perpetrated at the Glass House.
Dalong warned sports administrators not to come visiting him with any form of envelop as bribe, stressing that it is no longer going to be business as usual.
Dalong explained that he was among the Federal Government delegation to the 2002 Africa Nations Cup where they were promised $7000, only for the football federation to pay them only $400, shortchanging him and others by $6,600.
His words: “Corruption has indeed destroyed everything we do in this country and that is why we think that the best way to approach it is to come out and wage war against it. This corruption was not only limited to sports alone but every social system.”
“Once we are able to minimise corruption in the industry, we will go far. The best way to do it is to provide transparent leadership. The body language of the leader should be very clear. The major predicament is when a minister declares that he wants to fight corruption but yet brown envelops are smuggled into his resident at the midnight, there is no way he can wage war against corruption.
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