Youth engagement: Group calls for establishment of high performance community sports centres

 

The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), a police advocacy and non-kinetic group, has urged government at all levels to establish high performance community sports centres.

The National Coordinator of POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu, made the call on Friday in Enugu while speaking with newsmen  on positive and futuristic way to engage youths gainfully for societal benefit.

Amaraizu noted that to achieve an effective youths’ engagement, there was urgent need for governments, stakeholders and multi-agencies to come up with high performance Community Sports Centers across in Nigerian to replace the outdated Games Villages.

“The establishment of high performance Community Sports Centres will afford those veritable platforms that encourage the giving back to the society philosophy through transfer of skills, knowledge and values to our young minds using the instrumentality of community sports.

“The move will thereby turn them (youths) into National and International Sports champions as well as a great socio economic benefit to the society as obtainable in other countries of the world.

“It will help to promote positive behaviours and creating a platform of life changing opportunities for our youths. The High performance Community Sports Centre will serve as spring board and athletes’ bank where they can be discovered, developed and harnessed.

 

 

“The Centre will also provide veritable opportunities for all athletes to imbibe Olympic educational values of excellence, respect and friendship as well as core values of sports such as fair-play, social justice, self discovery, and discipline among others,” he said.

 

 

According to him, sports remains a means of enhancing education, creation of employment opportunities, instrument for driving National Ideology, promotion of gender equality and promotion of social mobilization, harmony and national integration, strengthening of resilience among all.

 

 

Amaraizu, a certified Olympic Sports Administrator, called for effective sports policy that would encourage administration of sports by professionals and use of professional/qualified sports coaches to implement planned programme of action on sports development.

 

 

According to him, professional/qualified sports coaches and administrators should lead the sports sector rather than the usual all comers’ affairs and in order to achieve the desired goals.

 

 

“There should be effective coordination by the Athletes Development Centers of the National Institute For Sports (NIS) and active collaboration with Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Federal Ministry of Education (School Sports), community leaders, faith-based organizations and others.

“This will help in the effective mapping of these young minds who are energetic and showing signs of skills in various sporting events to be harnessed.

“It will also serve as a platform for alternative meaningful pathways to engagement and especially to those who are vulnerable and at risk of joining membership of Organized Criminal Groups (OCGS), unlawful societies for serious and organized crime,” he said.

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Group tasks parents on proper parenting, good moral guidance for children

 

 The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), a police advocacy group, on Tuesday tasked parents on proper parenting and good moral guidance of children and youths.

“Good parenting is anchored on proper adult guidance and listening to children to find out their challenges and allowing them to grow from their mistakes rather than the usual enforcement of consequences,” National Coordinator of POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu, said.

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“Integrity is a vital value or character of life, which encourages youths to always do the right things, even when no one is watching them,” Comrade Chinedu Ugbam, the Chairman of the POCACOV, Enugu State Chapter, said on Sunday in Enugu.

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