Special sports athletes on Monday staged protests in Lagos and Benin City over their exclusion from the forthcoming 2022 National Sports Festival in Delta State.
“The ministry should stop playing politics with deaf sport athletes who are different kind of persons; they need to be encouraged. They have been training and some of them are employed by the states.
“What we want the ministry to do is to restore deaf sports to its permanent status and ensure that the athletes participate at the NSF in Delta,” he added. “This protest is very unnecessary because the minister, Sunday Dare, has approved the Para Sports Festival for special athletes and the second edition will be held next year,” Nelson stated.
Captain of Para-athletes in Ondo State, Oluwasola Aiku, confirmed that the Ondo State Sports Council had registered them for five Para-sports at the upcoming National Sports Festival.
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