A youth football competition organised by the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), as part of its Brighter Future project, tagged, ‘Building Youth Resistance to Crime,’ has ended at the Edo State School of Health Technology football pitch, Benin City.
The finals between Unity Football Club and Community Football Club, both of Ogummwenyin community, Oredo council, saw Unity Football Club winning the title by 5-3 via penalty shoot out after 1-1 ending of the regular time.
“The objective of this project is to bring young people together. We identified football as one sporting activity that young people in this part of the country take interest in participating. You can hear them chanting ‘no to cultism, no to cyber crime, no to human trafficking’ and that is the message we are passing through these activities and it is the same thing we had with them in the indoor communications, trying to set their mindset to something more positive, talk to them, bring different experts to talk to them.
While speaking on other areas of youth engagement in the three-year project and its sustainability, the ANEEJ Deputy Executive Director noted that they are building synergy with the local communities of Ogumwenyin and Ogwa, where the football clubs are domiciled and the security agencies, including the Police, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons , Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , Oredo and Ikpoba/Okha Local Government Councils.
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