BAKAU NYO DEMA CAFO IN SWEDEN BOOSTS BZSC NAWETTAN

Trophy Donated by Bakau Nyo Dema Cafo in Sweden

The Bakau Nyo Dema Cafo in Centerburg, Sweden, has boosted the Bakau Zonal Sports Committee (BZSC) in the 2012 football nawettan with a sponsorship package for both the league and the knockout trophies.

This marked the first time the committee has benefited from such gesture from the association.

The donated items included a giant trophy, gold and silver medals for the winners and runners-up and a cash price of D22,000 for a start.

The Sweden-based association of Bakau Nyo Dema Cafo comprises only the natives of Bakau and any other person who is married to a native of Bakau based in Sweden.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Lamin Anto Jarjue, a senior member of the association in Sweden who accompanied the items, said: “As a former footballer in the community, this is one of the ways we can support the youth of Bakau. 

 “Although, the Nyo Dema Cafo in Sweden is a new organization formed not long ago, but in the future we have a lot of plans for the community. For now we are only donating a single trophy, gold and silver medals for the winners and runners-up and a cash price of D22,000 as a start.

“Also this can encourage and motivate the youths to showcase their talents to the people on what they can do. I believe that through this type of initiatives, Bakau community can recover its lost glory in sport, especially in football where it was one time the best community in the county as far as football is concerned. The purpose of the formation of Bakau Nyo Dema Cafo in Sweden is to help and develop the town.

“We will try all in our endeavours to support the community in all sectors of life and not only in sport, in all we can do at the association’s level in Sweden.”

Reacting to the gesture, the president of Bakau Zonal Sports Committee, Bakary Dampha (Paco), expressed the committee’s appreciation to the gesture from the community’s Sweden-based association on behalf of his colleagues for their wonderful move towards the sports committee at this crucial time in Bakau football.

According to the BZSC president, “when I spoke to some guys in Bakau for such initiative, most of them said that they want to do it, but they have not the trust and confidence on people running football in Bakau.

“This gesture came thanks to the timely intervention of Adnan Musa, the head coach of Vidar FC, whose tireless efforts in communicating with the people of Nyo Dema Cafo in Sweden brought this to the BZSC nawettan this year.

“This is one of the ways that we want to change football in Bakau. On the side of my chance to be reelected as president of BZSC in the next congress for another four years, this depends entirely on the people of the community to decide.

“As regards development, I have done a lot in developing football in Bakau. Let them not forget the fact that I am the first president that brought Bahamas’s grass in Bakau and other things during my previous terms of office as president of BZSC.”