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Work To Be Done on SKD
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Thursday, 15th November 2007
Despite the fact that the Chinese government has turned over the
Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex (SKD) to the Liberian government
after it was renovated and refurbished by the Chinese government,
the Liberian government says more work needs to be done on the
complex.
The nation’s Chief Patron of Sports, President Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf, says more work needs to be done beyond the main playing
stadium of the complex to make it a real sports complex. She made
specific reference to the complex’s hotel.
Speaking yesterday on a number of national issues on her radio talk
show, “Conversation with the President,” the Liberian leader said
the government earlier arranged with a Chinese investment group to
do some work at the complex but noted that the arrangement did not
materialize.
President Sirleaf said discussion is currently ongoing with another
investment group to see how it could come to renovate the complex’s
other structures like the hotel facilities.
According to her, the Ministry of Youth and Sports is now working on
the finalization of the plan for the investors to come and carry out
the work
The President added that apart from the complex’s hotel, more work
needs to be done to fix other facilities that would accommodate
other games such as basketball so as to make the stadium a real
sports complex.
The sports complex was turned over to the Liberian government in
July this year after the Chinese government renovated it under a
special bilateral agreement. Since then, the complex has been used
for many public functions and is now housing the Ministry of Youth
and Sports.
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