By Philips Robinson-Adefioye, UK
Former President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF), and current Chairman of FCT Cricket Association(FCT), Engineer Emeka Onyeama says all is set for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Secondary Schools Cricket Competition.
Engineer Onyeama in an exclusive telephone interview with www.sunrisetimes.com.ng said the FCT Cricket tournament would involve 12 schools both in boys and girls category stating that schools that have spaces have been earmarked to host the preliminaries while the quarter, semi finals and final would be played at the Moshood Abiola Stadium cricket oval.
He also hinted that Olisa Egwatu was employed as a coach and as a technical adviser of FCT Cricket which as a result of digging deep into developmental programme which as also expanded the game in the capital of Nigeria.
” This is important to all the effort we have been making all the years. You are aware that at some point last year, we appointed a coach for FCT, in person of Mr Olisa Egwatu (Passerella) and since then the game of cricket has been growing from lips and bounds.
”Currently, as a results of the developmental efforts, we were able to participate in NCF under 17 National Cricket Championship for the first time where we feature young girls and young boys secondary schools in such tournament and in like manner as a result of that efforts we are now organising a tournament which would be called FCT Cricket sports competition which include 12 schools in boys and girls category which will make us to keep the beauty of the game in FCT.”
According to Onyeama, ” Cricket has always been my passion, as you know I was once a President of NCF, during that period, I gave all with my profound passion which led to the explosion of the game you see in Nigeria today.
He continued, “the first day we started playing cricket in Abuja inspired my drive to do a facelift for the game of cricket and leave it for the generations coming behind us. The only way to do this is to institutionalize the game and fuse it into the educational system which is my intention”. Onyeama emphasized.
