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The Governor of Anambra State Willie Obiano on Monday awarded a five-year contract to Monimichelle Sports Ltd for the maintenance of the Awka Township Stadium.
The Eastern Updates gathered that Obiano announced the award when he visited the stadium yesterday to ascertain and inspect the level of ongoing construction work at the stadium site.
The governor expressed satisfaction with the pace of work while also assuring ndi Anambra residents that the stadium would not be abandoned.
He said, ‘It is not enough to build the stadium, we are also putting measures in place for maintenance. And for this reason, Monimichelle Sports will take up the contract for a period of five years.’
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The governor urged the contractor to ensure the pitch was ready for the male and female U-17 academicals final matches on December 28.
The CEO, Monimichelle Sports, Ebi Egbe, assured the governor of the timely completion of the pitch.
‘It is a FIFA-standard casted pitch with state-of-the-art sporting facility ready to host any event. We assure the governor that this pitch will be ready to host the U-17 academicals final on December 28.
‘This stadium will be maintained according to FIFA standards and we assure that every facility will be intact.’
The Eastern Updates reports that the Awka Township Stadium is one of the three main projects which Obiano intends to leave as his legacy projects by the time he leaves office on March 17th 2021.
The stadium comes alongside the newly commissioned Umeleri airport and the international conference center Awka in the list of the monumental projects Obiano intends to leave behind when he exists the Government house.
Analysts belive these projects played key roles in the victory of Prof Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the just concluded Anambra poll.
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