By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.
The leader of Dambe traditional wrestling in Kano, Mohammed Bashir Danliti has disclosed that Garkuwan Bala Chindo was banned from the sports for allegedly indulging in breach of ethical conduct.
He alleged that the banned traditional wrestler violated an agreement reached with the athlete to represent Kano at the ongoing 20th edition of the National Sports Festival, NSF Edo 2020.
Danliti explained that Garkuwan Bala reneged from honouring an agreement reached before the commencement of the fiesta. He said ” I can confirm to you that we have banned Garkuwan Bala Chindo from our activities.
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” The people should not get it wrong, we did not ban him from Dambe entirely, we only banned him from our arena at Ado Bayero square. “What transpired between us is that in 2018 festival in Abuja he represented Kano and he won silver for Kano.
He received N300,000 from Kano state government for winning the medal. ” When we started preparing for 2020 edition, he told us that he is not interested in representing Kano, we said fine and wished him well. ”
Later he called back and said he has changed his mind, he will be on Team Kano, we welcomed him back and provided him with some monies, suddenly he stopped picking our calls and we got to know he had gone to represent another state. ”
We have banned him from our arena and we have asked him to refund our monies.,” It would be recalled that Garkuwan Bala Chindo was crowned as Sarkin Dambe Kano in 2018, he is also one time winner of the.prestigious governor Ganduje Dambe title .
