Rotimi George-Taylor, the immediate-past President of the Nigeria Boxing Federation, has urged stakeholders to foster zonal autonomy in the election into the sports federations.
“I believe that the zones should be allowed to function because you find that the core stakeholders are usually those in the zones. George-Taylor told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos, that an autonomous federation would be creative because of the need to succeed. The former Boxing federation president added that the granting of autonomy to the federations was a move that was long overdue. He said that government should not be involved in the appointment of officials for the federations. He stressed that such steps were not in line with current trends.
“The federations should be allowed to function independently as you cannot sit somewhere and be organising something for a federation without involving the federation directly. It simply means that the officials of such a federation cannot be held accountable in such circumstances. I think the minister is moving in the right direction; the more they give them powers, the more they can now set their own targets and become accountable to their stakeholders.”
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