Access Bank Partners Bayelsa Govt in Sports Development
Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank, Dr. Herbert Wigwe has given reasons for its decision to partner the Bayelsa State government towards the development of sports.
The bank’s Relationship Manager, Mr. Kakiri Miebi-Flint who represented Wigwe spoke at the flag- off of the festival tagged the “Prosperity/Access Unity Games” at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex in Yenagoa, the state capital.
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According to him, the bank was pleased to collaborate with the state government to actualise its prosperity mantra.
He noted that the state has had tremendous achievements in the sporting sector in the last three years, noting that the bank was working towards building a prosperous Bayelsa through sports partnership.
The state governor, Senator Douye Diri, who spoke at the event said the promotion of unity among people of the state was paramount to his administration.
Diri said this among others was the underlying factor behind the first Bayelsa State Sports Festival, which commenced on Sunday in conjunction with Access Bank.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted him as saying that the best way to be prosperous was in one’s health, stressing that sports was not only a competitive event but also medicinal.
He also stated that his administration, known as the Prosperity Government, decided to domesticate the National Sports Festival to meaningful engage youths of the state and encourage initiatives that empower and create jobs as launch pad for national development.
He said: “Sports is not only a competitive event. Sports also stop you from visiting the hospital frequently.
“For us as a government, the idea is that we want to prevent our citizens from being regular customers at hospitals and one sure way to achieve that was through sports.
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“This is one of the reasons we are replicating the National Sports Festival that we have been participating in over the years by bringing it home to also have the Bayelsa Sports Festival.”
