Ofili: ‘I’m yet to see or hear anyone is being punished for what the NOC and AFN did to me’
Favour Ofili is surprised those who failed to register her in the 100m event at the Paris 2024 Olympics which began Friday morning are yet to be sanctioned despite Sports Minister, John Enoh’s promise to do so.
Ofili was not in the 100m first round heats concluded Friday morning with Rosemary Chukwuma qualifying for Saturday’s semifinals.
Many Nigerians felt Ofili would also have easily made it to the semifinals but for the incompetence and negligence on the part of the AFN, who, on the prompting of a former President of the Federation decided not to register the 21-year-old for the event.
Ofili alerted the world to the costly mistake by the Federation on the eve of the race and she was promised a remedy but nothing was done as the event started without the Nigerian.
Barely one hour after the conclusion of the first round heats of the 100m, the 21-year-old has taken to her social media page to further vent her anger with some questions.
‘Sadly, nothing has been done…. I’m yet to see or hear anyone is being punished for what the NOC (Nigeria Olympic Committee) and AFN did to me. Athletes shouldn’t be getting punished for things out of their control,’ she wrote and reminded that she was not the first victim of this ineptitude but promised to fight on.
‘NOC and AFN…, this is not the first-time you guys are doing this so don’t think this is over because is not,’ she further wrote and assigned the million-naira question.
‘Who assigned federations and/or Olympic committees to enter athletes into Olympic Games? Is it World Athletics? If so, should they not hold them accountable when they fail to do their job by not entering athletes in events they qualify and want to compete?’
