By By Odoch Ben Sylvester<\/p>\n
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Four Payams have been unable to participate in the ongoing inter Payam tournament in Magwi County due to a lack of funding.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The annual Inter-Payam tournament, an SPLM imitative, is held in January to foster peaceful co-existence among the Payams of Magwi county, Eastern Equatoria state.<\/p>\n The two-week event kicked off on January 5th,<\/sup> 2024.<\/p>\n Mr. Acaye Ben Okee the Secretary-General for Magwi County Local Football Association told journalists that the tournament started well on the first day with a match between Pogee and Magwi payam of group C.<\/p>\n But a lot of gaps were realized on the second day where only 12 Payams reported with 4 missing.<\/p>\n Acaye revealed that four payams namely Omeo, Pageri, Kerepi and Nimule payam failed to report and participate in the ongoing inter payam tournament.<\/p>\n \u201cThe tournament started well on date 5th<\/sup> January 2024 as the opening game of inter Payam between Magwi Payam and Pogee Payam in group c and on the second day where the game was supposed to be played they realized a lot of gaps because four of the payam did not turn up for the tournament due to financial contrary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to him, 16 Payams were to participate in this game but only 12 showed up.<\/p>\n He disclosed that their office receives letters from those payams outlining inadequate financial support, transport; food, and insufficient preparation are among the contributing factors for the failure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe received letters from those missing Payam concerning their absence in the tournament, we had<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the reasons for their absence was a financial problem, food items, transportation means and their preparation level for playing the match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Mr. Ben stressed that they considered the apology of the four Payams who failed to participate since it was not intentional.<\/p>\n He advised the participating Payams to shun conflict since Magwi County is a peace-loving county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By By Odoch Ben Sylvester Four Payams have been unable to participate in the ongoing inter Payam tournament in Magwi County due to a lack of funding. The annual Inter-Payam tournament, an SPLM imitative, is held in January to foster peaceful co-existence among the Payams of Magwi county, Eastern[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Payam-tournament-in-Magwi-County-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20597,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions\/20597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}