SP. Amb. (Dr.) Usman Ahmed Abdul-Dimka the Commander of Delta State EagleNet of the Delta State Police Command, played host to the athletes from Plateau State who participated in the just concluded National Sports Festival held in Delta State.
Dimka, who is not shy about his passion for the game of sports and his beloved hometown State of Plateau, appears to take special pride in Team Plateau athletes in their individual games, praising the team members not just for their achievements at the NSF, but also for their efforts to promote unity in the country.
Dimka said “I am proud of Team Plateau,” adding that he believed the athlete’s “work, dedication, focus and self-discipline” in all their games were important and speaks volumes.
‘I am so proud to host our great athlete who are such inspirations, through their hard work, dedication, focus and self-discipline, as they endeavoured to represent Plateaue State to the best of their ability.
Addressing the the Plateau athletes on the need to shun negative vices, SP Dimka said, ‘Sport is a fundamental and adds to true human value. It is strong tool against any kind of criminal intentions. We have a moral obligation to protect and promote sports.We all have responsibility to ensure sports is hosted at community,” he said.
Continuing he said, “In the beginning, sport was viewed as a way for physical recreation but now its part of instruments for economically productivity. It has taken a new ideological structure where sports and athletes have transformed from a ‘recreational hobby’ to a billion dollar enterprise on the global stage,
“We all, as individuals, must be devoted to promoting sports and its value as an important tool to prevent radicalization, violence and crimes.
“Sports has grown exponentially and its influence on Nigerian lives is astounding.
“Thousands of people gather in the stadium and other arenas, just to see their athlete participate in a game, in the hopes of a victory.
“Many people schedule their daily routines around these games and are incredibly loyal to their teams, there was no in between. But how can this translate into the political realm of our country? Sports is a unifying streams to bring us together as one people.
“We must continue to build on the power of sports as a tool for peace.
“In promoting our youth through sports and related activities it prevent crimes, violence, drug use, anti-social and risky behaviour and effectively build resilience of our youth,” he concluded.
He appreciated his boss, State Commissioner of Police CP Ari Mohammed Alli, his management team and police officers of Delta State command that sacrifices their time in service to the nation which provided a free crime and enabling environment for the sports festival to have started and completed peacefully.
It would be recalled that throughout the nealy two-week sports Festival in Delta State no crime was recorded as the State Commissioner of Police and his counterparts from other agencies tightened up security around the State.
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