Nigeria Football

Nest Of Champions To Undergo Grass Maintenance For Two Months

After ten hours intensive pressure yesterday, the main pitch of the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo is to undergo a two months grass maintenance.

It was gathered was due to the invasion of the playing turf by thousands of supporters that turned out to witness the second term declaration of Governor Udom Emmanuel yesterday.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a staff of Julius Berger Nigeria working in the stadium said they allowed the declaration to take place in the stadium after the organizers of the declaration agreed that there will be no encroachment into the green playing turf since the Nigerian Professional Football League is slated to commence next week.

He hinted that there is no one that knows anything about football and what it take to maintain this facility especially the pitch will be happy today seeing what these women and political groups have done to this grass which will not take less than two months to be back to what it was before this event.

” We gave the organizers of the governors’ declaration but we have an agreement that they will not allow their supporters to encroached on the pitch where we have the green grass because the league will start next week and the Super Eagles may likely want to come and play their qualifying matches for African Cup of Nations in Cameroon next year.

” It will take us not less than two months for us to bring back the pitch to what it was  before this event because since morning, they been dancing on the grass. You can see that the grass is no longer greenish and in some parts of the pitch, we will do transplanting which the grass need time to be ready for use”.

Another staff, a female, lamented that despite the demarcation barring the people from encroaching into the pitch, they cut the tape and went in to liter the pitch with the groundnut, banana and other pilings.

” The people have not done well , how will someone come in here and see that we have mark that place that people should not enter and they forcefully go in and dirty the place to this level and even smash same to fine grace? If this pitch was like this, will they have love to go in and dance there? I don’t like when adult behave like children or inflict punishment on others and destroy facilities like this “

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