Volunteers Ready, Kitted

All the eight centres for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009, are now buzzing and living in excitement over the arrival of volunteers to the sub-seats. Monitors in all the eight sub-seats of Abuja, Bauchi, Calabar, Enugu, Ijebu-Ode, Kaduna, Kano and Lagos have sent in reports about the excitement these volunteers have created in their various designated centres.
According to crunched out numbers coming from the Main LOC’s computers here in Abuja, 1,700 volunteers have been sent out to the eight sub-seats, with the Abuja centre taking the highest number of 300. The remaining 1, 400 were shared out to the seven sub-seats at 250 to five of them and 100 to the remaining two. The two sub-seats with 100 are Ijebu-Ode and Bauchi.

According to an LOC source, all the 1, 700 volunteers were supplied with kits for their jobs, such as a full uniform Addias track suit and another set made of African fabrics, with the logo of the tournament monogrammed on each set. When asked to confirm the position of the volunteers, the head of the section, Chief Emeka Inyama said it was not the fact that the volunteers are already setting their various sub-seats aglow that is of excitement to him but the fact that every member of the volunteers unit were bubbling with so much patriotism, and that long before they were sent out, they had been looking forward towards doing a job for the country.
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We are very excited by the attitude of these men and women. They have been showing so much commitment to the cause of hosting a highly successful tournament.
The interest they have all shown to the job is something to be preached to all Nigerians for emulation.
Right from the word ‘go’, when we had called out for interested people to come in and apply, we have been amazed by the interest shown, with 14, 000 turning up for consideration. It is from this number that we have taken the final 1, 700 that completed the full training, and all the lot have been well-trained to our high standard, fully kitted and accredited. They are all set to go.”