By Augustine Kalu on August 28, 2019
The Akwa Ibom State Government is planning to build an Olympic-size swimming pool, the State Director of Sports, Lawrence Iquaibom, has disclosed.
He told Oracle Today Sports that building an Olympic-size swimming pool is what the state is looking forward to doing as a way of developing swimming in the State.
“Of course the State has to bring back one of our sons, Reverend Samuel Jesimiel to come home and help in the development of swimming in the state. There is no gain saying that over the years, Reverend Jesimiel has been away contributing immensely to the development of aquatics sports in the country while the state has no swimming structure,” Iquaibom began.
“He is to put the structure on ground to enable the state benefit from aquatics sports where he is an expert. We have to bring him back home as his technical expertise is well known the world over having been one of the technical officials of both CANA and FINA,” Iquaibom explained.
Speaking further, the member of the board of Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) while reacting to a question said: “Of course, we have plan of building an Olympic-size swimming pool in the state.
“The aim is to develop swimming in the state because Akwa Ibom is an aquatic state and we are supposed to make maximum use of the enormous water resources abound in the state.
“As a matter of fact, swimming and aquatics sports generally supposed to be fetching the state a lot of medals in national and international tournaments,” the former national weightlifting champion explained.
•Photo shows Akwa Ibom State Director of Sports Lawrence Iquaibom
Source Daily Sports
Posted August 28, 2019
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