The Minister of Culture, Youth and sport in Eastern Equatoria State is appealing to the president of South Sudan Football Association to facilitate and build up a perimeter wall at Torit football playground.
Stella Iromo says constructing a better playground will open space for sports athletics to do more practice for improvements of games in the state.
She calls on the football association, other relevant partners and the government to collaborate for the benefit of young children who are talented in sports.
“We need you to help these footballers to establish a fence in that playground so that they will also have a good a standard of a playground here in Eastern Equatoria and also I want to talk about youths here of Eastern Equatoria they don’t have really a base to get something, we the government cannot be able to make that one, we need you also to make support them for start-up things so that they will also able to stand by their feet and through your collaboration with me I think everything will be okay”, the minister pleads.
South Sudan Football Association President Augustino Madut says it is the work of the government to make sure young people are supported.
“What happen always government help youth through sports and other activities, so government is supposed to build the infrastructure and hand it over to the youth association and this is happening in all the country, of course we association we are not just leaving them like that, we give them policy, we give them any guardians, the rules of the games and strategy of how to develop football and we support them when they go higher but when the men are in the state level it is a responsibility of state government. The infrastructure is critical, there are small areas which are not state they have fence theirs and organized and this is through the government and through the private sectors because the son of the area are supposed to help the youths”, he points out.
Maduts acknowledges the greatness of how football contributes to the future of young people, stating that football brings peace, unity and cooperation in the society.
He urges the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports to support the women league in the state.
“Football is a solution to all our problems the youth need engagement they have the talents and football is keeping people united, football send the message of peace that is why we using what we called grassroots football that we want to get to the village, get to children on the street, after school what did they do they have to have funs so we are establishing this as the message of peace and as the message of developing the youths and through them we create discipline among them, we create unity among them and they will be good people for the future of South Sudan, secondly, we have to develop women football so that they are same like other people, and as the minister and the women in the office you need to support the women league”, he says.
The speakers made the remarks on Saturday in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State.