Superintendents Must Account for County Sports Meet Fund

 

As the country's National County Sports Meets draws nearer, Superintendents in all of the fifteen counties have been warned to account responsibly for every dime from fund they will received for the hosting of the various games.

 

Sounding the warning to superintendents recently on national radio, Internal Affairs Deputy Minister for Administration, Mr. Varney Sirleaf  said the fund should be carefully managed and given only to those it is meant for including athletes, coaches, referees and other essentials. After the sporting activities is concluded, he said, all superintendents will be required to fully account

 

“Celebrating Ten Years of Peace Through Sports,” as this year's County Meet is been themed, the matches will kick off in five day beginning Saturday, November 15 in Lower Buchanan, Grand Bassa County.

 

The 15 counties of Liberia are expected to be represented by their respected teams to participate in all of the tournament's five disciplines of football, kickball, basketball, volleyball and athletics. They have been placed in four groups for the preliminary football and kickball games to be played at four different venues across the country.

 

Grand Bassa, Grand Kru and Bomi Counties have been placed in group I, and their games will be played at the refurbished Doris Williams Sports Stadium in Lower Buchanan. Bong, Maryland, Grand Gedeh and Montserrado Counties make up group II, whose games would be played at the David Kuyon Sports Stadium in Gbanga, Bong County.

 

Lofa, River Gee, Margibi and Grand Cape Mount Counties are being placed in group III, with their matches scheduled to take place at the Voijama Sports Stadium, Lofa County; while Sinoe, Gbarpolu, Nimba and Rivercess Counties constitute group IV, and they will battle each other in Greenville, Sinoe County, at the James E. Green Sports Stadium.

 

From the preliminary rounds to the grand finale of the volleyball, basketball and track & field events will be played in Monrovia, Montserrado County, alongside the quarterfinals, semifinals and the grand finale of the football and kickball games, somewhere between December 2013 and January 2014.