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Sports minister reveals why he always wears red beret

Solomon Dalung and Sunday Oliseh
Solomon Dalung and Sunday Oliseh
The Plateau-State born lawyer is always seen donning Khaki and red beret in public events
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Nigerian minister of Youth and Sports,

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The Plateau-State born lawyer is always seen donning Khaki and red beret in public events since he resumed office as the minister of Youth and Sports.

Explaining on his page, Dalung revealed that his red beret is his signature for a struggle of the common people while the 'Khaki' is ‘just nothing but a very modest way of appreciating the magnitude of problems the 'common people' face in this country.’

“I don't fancy putting on attires outside that because it does not at all, portray our understanding of the situation in which we operate,” he said on his Facebook page.

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“There are people in this country who find it difficult to eat one meal a day and yet, we intimidate and harass them with gorgeously expensive dresses. Some of our apparels can even feed a whole community! I find it difficult to reconcile such an irony. (Sighs) So, I have decided to just live happily and modestly because that is how I feel happy each time I am in my simple wears.”

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