 You're welcome back to the final lap of our conversation on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. The venue of the UEFA Champions League final has been moved due to COVID-19 concerns and there's a debate about a possible postponement of the Olympic Games. Now back here in Nigeria, sports authorities are intending to put in the required protocol to avoid a spread of COVID-19 or maybe it's the clubs that aren't doing much. Most footballers in and the Nigeria Premier League have not been vaccinated and stadiums have not been fumigated and checks and players have reportedly been stopped. We have Plus TV Africa's sports presenter Wally Scott here with us to talk about this. Good morning Wally Scott. Good morning. So there's like two conversations we're having here the moving of the venue and we're talking about the standard to regarding COVID-19 pandemic, the protocols being put in place. Why do you think it is what it is right now? The moving of the venue is just an example of how seriously COVID-19 has been taking in other climbs, senior climbs that is. You move an event from Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey to the Estadio da Grau in Porto, Portugal just because of COVID-19 because the fans are saying we can't risk going to Turkey considering the fact that it's going skyrocketing in Turkey there so we're not going there. So it's okay. Good. Come to Europe and the UK. Now just this morning 3,371,000 people have signed a petition, submitted to a mayor in Tokyo saying that she canceled the Olympics totally. Submitted this morning by a lawyer. Because of health concerns. COVID-19 concerns. In Japan, China is skyrocketing like every day. But this is a Nigerian system where our league is supposedly going on. None of our players have been vaccinated. The COVID-19 checks aren't done. Nobody's in a bubble. We claim that we don't have fans there. But that's a lie because I can conveniently say, I don't know about other states, but in Lagos, it's a gigi-precise, then only one. And in Suri, where MFM plays, I know the guys in the area in Suri, area and IEG area always throng the field and they're always there in their numbers. And they're not like working like COVID-19 tests. And I refuse to stop reporting any matching in Lagos because these guys aren't vaccinated. Nobody's in a bubble. Nobody's been tested. That's a risk for me. Even a nose mask might not just save the situation for me. You know, so the truth be said, I think the management should be blamed now at this point. Talking about the management, apologies for what it's called. Who should be responsible for vaccinating the players? Should it be the football body or the players to give responsibilities for their own health? There's a body called the League Management Company. It's called the LMC. And their job is to give them, I've always called them a barking dog. It doesn't bite. It does bark. You know, and initially when the LMC first came in, there were rules and regulations. You must have a particular amount in your account of the team. You must play your players regularly, pay them their salaries, when, as and when do you? They don't do anything about it. These guys don't pay. We see playing players protesting like every other day and the LMC do nothing about it. The LMC have said yes. You must get vaccinated. Everybody, your team, most of us have said the coaches, the managerial crew, the teams. Nobody's vaccinated. I mean, who's taking responsibility for that? Who should be doing it? The LMC will tell the clubs to actually ensure these things are done. But how do they check it? But let's not act like vaccines are sold in supermarkets and you could just buy one. Nigeria had a specific number of vaccines that were provided for the country. There were, there are specific people that were, you know, supposed to get vaccines. Sports players were not part of the list that were meant to be vaccinated. Elderly people, frontline workers, government officials are the least. But sportsmen were not. I know, I know, I know for one that I can, I can speak for that, that them, Aisha Falude, who is the head of the Nigerian Women's Premier League insisted that most teams must get vaccinated or at least, or at least from where? Sorry, or at least follow COVID-19 protocols. Now, I don't know if the players, the women players have been vaccinated, but I am luck, well, I was lucky to have actually covered about two or three women matches. And except for when they were going to the field, they had their nose masked on. They were being checked on a, on a study when you're going to the field, they are going out, as in the protocols were being followed in most Nigerian women football leagues, which means that for some reasons, like I said, let's go back to the management again. Aisha Falude was able to ensure sanity in the women's Premier League and showing that, listen, these protocols are followed. Many vaccines not taken, but at least protocols followed. In the Nigerian male Premier League is like a carnival. It's like everybody come one, come all. Everybody around the stadium can just walk in and watch the match. And this is in contrast to the rest of Africa. We know that countries like Kenya garnered basically shut down all sports activities. Yes, it shut down for a long while. And when they did come back, the protocols have been taken very seriously. Now, surprisingly, not surprisingly, the best football structures in Africa and in North African parts of the continent. And then they are following the protocols to the tilt. And I haven't heard, that seems to a large extent, in North African countries, sports, football, every league going on had a particular percentage of vaccination, which means that if the cricket league is going on, you get a percentage, football league is going on. And I don't think that happened in Nigeria. However, the protocols were at least followed if you can't get your vaccines yet. But in Nigeria, it's a different, different ball game. Let's hope that we at least continue testing. You actually go to the stadiums across Nigeria and you're asking yourself, does COVID exist in this part of town? Really? Like I said, I hope that we at least continue testing if we can get everyone vaccinated. And you know, we of course have lapses in making sure that everyone follows COVID-19 protocols. And at least let's test all the players regularly to ensure that they and anybody who is infected, you know, can be pulled out of the space. 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