SKD
Returning to Sports Arena
- Clean-Up Campaign Tomorrow
January 9, 2004
Monrovia
For the first time in many years the Samuel K. Doe Sports Complex in
Paynesville would be given a facelift beginning tomorrow following
years of civil war in the Country.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports is initiating a clean-up campaign
at the Stadium.
The SKD has been hosting more than 40,000 internally displaced
persons who fled fighting in Lofa County and parts of the Country.
A release from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, said the Minister
of State for Presidential Affairs, Jackson E. Doe is expected to
launch the campaign. The release added that other personalities from
the government and private sector are also expected to join the
cleanup exercise.
The release quoted Youth and Sports Minister, Cllr. Wheatonia
Dixon-Barnes as saying that her focus would be on the playing pitch
to enable the National team to begin training for the preliminary
rounds of the African Cup of Nations as well as the World Cup since
the Antoinette Tubman Stadium is inadequate to cope with growing
demand of the sporting fans.
Minister Dixon-Barnes, in the release, said the campaign would also
serve as a motivating factor for the Chinese Technical Assistance
team in Liberia to conduct renovation works at the Stadium which has
been massively looted and vandalized by unscrupulous individuals
during years of fighting in the Country. She then call on local and
international NGOs, the business community and the general public
especially sports lovers to contribute toward the campaign by any
positive means.
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