Brass-Nembe bubbles for Sunny-Goli marathon

By George Aluo

The twin towns of Brass-Nembe would come alive this weekend with a marathon race being bankrolled by sports loving member of parliament, Hon Israel Sunny-Goli.

News coming out of the oil rich enclave disclosed that everything is set for the unity race which has been thrown open to indigenes and non indigenes resident in the area.

According to one of the organizers of the race, Hon Opukiri Jones-Ere, the youthful parliamentarian who is bankrolling the event, Isreal Sunny-Goli wants to use the race to cement unity amongst his constituents.

“Sunny-Goli knows the vital role sports can play in uniting the people and that is why he is putting the race together. He has resolved to make it an annual event. And to show you how big he wants this to be, the runners would smile home with mouthwatering money. The winner of the race would pocket half a million Naira with 10 other top runners pocketing consolation money.”

Opukiri was full of praise for Sunny-Goli for his vision to use marathon race to bring his constituents together, even as he added that the race could throw up future stars that would do the country proud.

Going by the program released by the organizers, the one-day marathon would be flagged off by 7 am with the runners taking off from the Basketball pitch, Okpoama Brass for men. The women would start their race from the Chief Timipre Sylva airstrip, Okpoama Brass. Both the men and women will terminate at St Barnabas School field Twon-Brass.