Video of Puma kits rejected by Nigerian official worth over N1bn emerges online

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Nigerian athletes are currently battling with insufficient kits at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games despite having a deal with Puma while heading to the Summer Games.

The company signed a deal worth over N1 billion to supply Team Nigeria with all their outfits in all the events they would participate in.

But somewhere down the lane, members of the Olympics Committee decided to use public funds to buy kits from a different source.

This decision however leaves all the branded costumes for the Nigerian contingent wasting away somewhere in the country while those who needed them are using their hands to wash their kits.

Meanwhile, a former serving senator, Shehu Sani, has now released a video of the kits languishing away where they are kept on his official Instagram page, saying: "Puma freely donated these $2.7 kits to Nigeria, our sports officials rejected them; and used public funds to purchase from other sources; and now the embarrassment in #tokyoolympics."