Despite the stand of the country on
zero-tolerance for drugs for the 2012 Olympics, the Athletic Federation
of Nigeria has gone ahead to recruit a drug-tainted American named
Garfield Ellenwood as one of the coaches to the London Games.
On July 2, the AFN president Solomon Ogba
listed Ellenwood as one of the experts that could help improve Nigerian
athletes in London when he released the official team list of the
federation for the Games to the media at the secretariat of the Nigeria
Olympic Committee. And three days after the event the Minister of Sports
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi announced the zero-tolerance stance of the
Federal Government when he handed over Team Nigeria to the NOC on behalf
of President Goodluck Jonathan in a ceremony held at Lagos Sheraton Hotel.
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