Mason Backs Anti-Doping Campaign
By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
The Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy
Jonathan A. Mason has told youths and students of Liberia to deviate
from doping.
Also the owner of basketball champions NPA
Pythons, Minister Mason told the youths and students not to listen to
society as cigarette is a dope that is not "good for your body and
mind."
"If you begin to go into doping, the style of your life is destroyed,"
Minister Mason warned on Friday, November 19, when he served as
keynote speaker at the Anti-Doping Campaign held by the Liberia
National Olympic Committee (LNOC) in Monrovia.
"It is not healthy for you to obtain these
substances. If you hook on cocaine, marijuana and cigarette, it is
tantamount to destroying your body," pointed out Minister Mason.
According to him, smoking leads to all sort of
problems that are capable of causing one "to sell your body" if such
person cannot afford to purchase a cigarette.
On behalf of the LNOC, the President Deborah J.
Williams said, "doping is banned by the IOC and other bodies. This is
not accepted for athletes to use drugs."
The Assistant Minister for Sports Richard Wleh
joined the LNOC in speaking on the need to deviate from doping.
"We are going to join the communities in the
anti-doping campaign," said Minister Wleh.
Representing the various federations and
associations in sports, Ahmad Tukpah of the Swimming Federation
appealed to coaches and medics to keep track of their athletes. "The
IOC is very serious when it comes to anti-doping."
Over ten schools in the Monrovia area,
including BW Harris, Matilda Newport, Worldwide Mission, College of
West Africa, Gray D. Allison, First AG, JJ Ross and Salafiyya Grammar
Schools participated in the anti-doping campaign by parading from
upper Broad Street to the Sports Commission.
Some of the anti-doping slogans read: "Say No To
Drugs-Play Sports Clean and Fair." Another slogan tells fathers not to
send their children to buy drugs, cigarettes being no exception.
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