Deaf Sports athletes yesterday in Benin protested their non-inclusion in the forthcoming National Sports Festival (NSF) slated for Delta by the Federal
The protesters who were led by Coach Sunny Aimufua to the Nigerian Union of Journalists complex, faulted the Ministry’s decision to make deaf sport optional as against the permanent status it enjoyed before now.
“We are here to protest the exclusion of the deaf sports from the forthcoming National Sports Festival in Delta in November. It is also unfortunate that the sport has been made optional, which should not be so. You can’t be talking of development when you make a sport optional,” Coach Aimufua said. “Also, we have three major sport committees in the world. First is the International Olympic Committee , International Paralympic Committee and the Committee of Deaf Sports. Now the Ministry has favoured the two others while we are being neglected.
“They said a sport becomes optional when there are no facilities for that sport. We must know that Deaf athletics cannot be optional because we have track in most stadiums in Nigeria by able bodied sports men and para athlete athletes, so why won’t there be a place for deaf athletics?
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