Friday is generally perceived to be the end of a week. And today Friday, is the end of the week which the Acting Chairman of Kano State Sports Commission promised the Organizing Secretaries, the Coaches, Doctors, Drivers and others officials that are yet to get their Abuja trip allowances to be paid.
The acting chairman told those that were not paid to remain calm as their allowances will be paid this week after he paid the allowances of the athletes’ and Press Crew who participated in the Second Edition National Para Games 2023 in Abuja.
We are all aware that it was the noises that the press crew made after their return that made the commission hurriedly sourced for money and paid them.
This was seen by most of us as an act of closing the mouths of the athletes and the press leaving many others unpaid which many see as a bad leadership style.
Investigation by this site revealed that it was the fear or the continuous outburst by the press crew that made the acting chairman of the committee forget the importance of Organizing Secretaries, the Coaches, Doctors, Drivers and others officials to Abuja trip and act that way.
As I said previously, organizing secretaries manage their respective associations and also bring the coaches into their associations, but the acting chairman did not recognize their efforts.
And the coaches who the organizing secretaries got identified the athletes, trained and shaped them before getting the result which the acting chairman is boosting about, but the acting chairman did not recognize these efforts.
Moreover, we know the importance of Medical teams in a situation under review which is to provide medical assistance to the entire team day and night but it is sad the acting chairman did not see them worthy to get their pay.
Even the drivers that were seconded from other ministries and MDAs together with that of the commission did not get their pay.
There are also many others that travelled to Abuja and made immeasurable contributions to the trip but the acting chairman ignored them.
To most of us what the acting chairman did was bad. In as much as the athletes and the Press are important and worthy to be paid, so the others or the rest are.
We want the acting chairman to know that favoring others against others is bad. And a good leader must provide equal level playing ground for all.
He should not discriminate. What he did last week was discrimination and a good leader must not do that.
I called on the press crew that were favored to continue with what they were doing that frightened the acting chairman to source for money and paid them to do the same for the rest that were at Abuja together with them.
