Medal Table Padding Was As A Result Of Human Error says LOC Member.

By Akinkunle Bolarinwa

Distinguished sports administrator and member of the Local Organising Committee, Doctor Kweku Tandor has advised the ministry of sports to device plans to forestall future padding of medal table.

Dr. Kweku Tandor

The Lagos based sports technocrat agreed that there were irregularities during the NSF but they are human errors caused by laxity.

"These errors are obvious to some of us that were on ground during games and was dealt with".

He said there was no intent of deliberate manipulation by anybody as regards to the medals table.

"There was no evidence of deliberate manipulation, we need to get that out of the way".

Doctor Tandor said, the NSF should revert back to its former was so as to avoid the type of errors that affected the Asaba games.

"I know that there are certain things to be done to avoid this type of things in future and this are things that are used to be done in the previous NSF"

"Even before the start of each festival, the number of sports are known at a meeting that would be held six months before the festival".

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