Nigeria’s number one table tennis player, Aruna Quadri has joined the recent spate of complains rolling from the country’s sports stars over apparent neglect from their officials and government, megasportsarena.com reports.
So soon after Glasgow Rangers of Scotland defender, Leon Aderemi Balogun blasted Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for owing players in the national team, and Blessing Okagbare blamed administrators for mass disqualification of the nation’s athletes at the ongoing Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, Quadri is raising similar umbrage.
This comes with the Germany-based ping-pong ace raising eyebrows over what he called ill-treatment of Team Nigeria athletes at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games, and the 32-year-old star, who lost in the third round, is calling for a change of tact.
After getting knocked out from the table tennis event in midweek, Quadri took to social media to vent his spleen and faulted the sports ministry’s decision to remove the coach that qualified him to the quarter-finals of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Quadri lamented: “You all wanted me to perform well but you removed my coach that qualified me to quarterfinals at the Rio 2016 Olympics. I dare you all to remove me because I said the truth.
“Athletes are being short paid, underpaid, and nobody should complain? If the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, don’t come and address the athletes, these officials will spoil all the good things you have been doing.”
