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| NSC Executive Secretary, Mamudou Max Jallow, has supported the revival of wrestling, a traditional sport in The Gambia (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES/July 2012) |
The Executive
Secretary of The Gambia’s National Sports Council, NSC, Mamudou Max Jallow, has
died.
Mr Jallow was
pronounced death at the Edward Francis Small Hospital in Banjul, the Gambian
capital, where he was taken ill on Saturday evening.
“I was informed
yesterday (Saturday) that Max is ill and was taken to the Edward Francis Small
Hospital,” NSC Development Officer, Fabakary Touray told The Voice reporter
Sulayman Ceesay on May 19, 2013. “This morning (Sunday), I was informed he
passes away.”
He was
laid to rest at 5pm local time at his home village Brufut, Kombo North
District, West Coast Region.
Jallow,
an erstwhile Development Officer at the NSC, was appointed Executive Secretary
in February 2011, and has worked at the Council since 2001.
A
master’s degree holder in Sports Science, Jallow will best be remembered for
his commitment to restructuring National Sporting Associations, NSAs, in The
Gambia, and his great role in the successes of the annual Brufut Marathon.
Following
his latest appointment, Max told Point Sport
his major plans are to “strengthen the National Sport Policy and Programme of
Action” and “to ensure all national sports competitions are decentralised”.
In June
2012, he presided over the annulment
of the registration of 21 sport associations and subsequently dissolved the
executive committees that run them.
The NSC said it was determined “to ensure
national sport associations continue to conform to national and international
rules, regulations, norms standards and codes of conduct governing the
particular sport.”
He has supported the revival of wrestling,
a traditional sport in The Gambia.
“I think local government authorities need to
provide recreational facilities to all sports, particularly wrestling,” Jallow
told The North
Bank Evening Standard in July 2012. “There is not one wrestling arena
in the whole country.”
Marks of respect for the late Mamudou Max Jallow are
pouring in on the social media site, Facebook.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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