The Chairman, Akarachi Foundation, Engr. Akarachi Amadi has echoed the important role sports journalists play in the promotion and development of grassroots sports.
The young administrator who bagged a triple threats award from Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Imo Chapter last Thursday noted that the role of sports journalists nation-building as well as economic growth cannot be overlooked hence his huge respect for the revered fourth estate of the realm.
He enjoined the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Imo Chapter to continue to partner with Akarachi Foundation calling on them to give more publicity to the 2020\/2021 Mbaike Unity Football Tournament which his foundation is sponsoring with over 20 million naira.
\u201cI have heard your appeal and I will treat it very soon. The football competition that we started about a month ago we are happy with the kind of traction it has gained since it started,\u201d Amadi informed sports journalists during the interactive session where he was named as Distinguished Patron of Imo SWAN and also as the 2020 Imo Best Grassroots Football Development Award of Excellence recipient.
\u201cI am also happy with the support I have received from SWAN collectively and individually. But I will also call on you to do more. This competition has cost over 20 million nairas. We shall be given over six million nairas in prizes on the final day. The logistics, health aspect, security, outfit, and kits for the teams have cost more. Amongst the highest cost is from the publicity committee.
\u201cI am thrilled to have these sports juggernaut in Imo State behind me and I am happy that I am now a Patron of the Association in the State which I know will open more doors.
\u201cThe competition is our project and we must all support it. I am very happy to receive the first group in my corporate office that we are trying to bring it up to the expected standards.\u201d
Engr. Akarachi Amadi also promised to give Imo SWAN office a facelift to ensure that it conforms with the latest trend in sports reporting and casting.
\u201cMe and Bright Ahamefula (Secretary, Central Planning Committee (CPC), Mbaike Unity Football Tournament) will devote time to come and look at the office and then consider what we can do. I assure you that the office will get a touch of Akarachi Foundation very soon,\u201d he assured.
The philanthropist while appreciating Imo SWAN for his investiture as a Patron of the Association, Certificate as the SWAN 2020 Imo Best Grassroots Football Development also briefed Imo SWAN of their invitation to the final of the 2020\/21 Mbaike Unity Football Tournament which comes up on January 3rd, 2021 at the Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu Stadium, Iho, Ikeduru LGA.
\u201cThank you for the triple threats award and I am using this medium to invite everyone to the final of the 2020 \/21 Mbaike Unity Football Tournament which holds on the 3rd January 2021 by 12noon at the Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu Stadium, Iho, Ikeduru LGA.
\u201cThe chairman of the occasion will be the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Professor Placid Njoku who will be there live. We shall also have other notable sons and daughters of Mbaitoli and Ikeduru LGAs will be there live.\u201d
While speaking earlier, the Chairman, Imo SWAN, Everest Ezihe pointed out that Engr. Akarachi Amadi was carefully chosen after a painstaking survey which was conducted by the members association and he enjoined the Founder and Chairman of Akarachi Foundation to continue with his good works for humanity.
He promised the association\u2019s unflinching support in the coverage of his events just as they have been doing with the publicity accorded the 2020\/21 Mbaike Unity Football Tournament thus far.
Dignitaries at the event include Imo SWAN Chairman, Everest Ezihe, the Deputy Chairman, John Kennedy Uzoma, Secretary, Tunde Liadi, and the National Financial Secretary of SWAN, Sampson Orji among other members as well as aides of Akarachi Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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