Sports
journalists in Cross River State have appealled to Governor Ben Ayade to
release the approved N2 million assistance to the surviving family members of
late
veteran broadcaster, late Eddy Bekom.
Rising from
a joint meeting of stakeholders and the Cross River State sports journalists
yesterday, the colleagues said the Bekom’s surviving children are suffering
since the sudden and devastating demise of their parents occasioned by an
unfortunate domestic gas explosion.
While
thanking the state government for its kind gesture, the journalists said such
money would go a long way in ameliorating several academic and domestic
challenges facing the children.
A communiqué
at the end of the meeting signed by Mr. Albert Andinam, Mr. Isoni Isoni, and
Vitalis Ugoh, advised the stakeholders to liaise with the zonal and national
organs of sports journalism to establish an endowment fund for members to cater
for similar mishaps and to immediately set a machinery in motion to immortalize
the late Bekom.
They
commended the SEC for keeping sports journalism flying in the state in view of
the apparent lull in the scene and for being able to be part of the success
story of the Super Eagles for the Russia 2018 World Cup campaigns at Uyo while
it lasted with meager resources.
The joint
meeting endorsed a former Vice Chairman of the Chapter, Mr. Charles Eniang, to
replace the deceased as Zonal Vice President at NEC in tandem with the spirit
and proviso of the unique rotation policy as traditional in our South-South.
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