Nigeria's track and field queen Blessing Olagbare has lashed out at Athletics Federation of Nigeria for their lack of developmental programs for young athletes in Nigeria.
The current fastest woman in Africa said that the AFN pay a huge amount of money to athletes from abroad just to make Nigeria look good on the global stage neglecting those who train year-in, year-out to be better.
“Honestly, I have been so calm about these people killing our grassroots section/home based athletes with their recruiting of athletes from other countries instead of building the great talents that we have.
“They sit down, criticize the athletes back home that they are not improving or doing enough to be at the top. Yet, they don’t do anything to support them. They rate their recruits above the great talent that Nigeria has, paying money and rent to athletes who did not even shown up at our trials in Nigeria, just to look good.
"Enough is enough with the shortcuts to success because our nation and athletes can do better than this,” Okagbare said.
Athletics Federations of Nigeria lacks vision for Nigerian Athletes- Blessing Okagbare
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