Athletes who will represent Rivers state in the 19th National Sports Festival later this year will stage a peaceful protest to the government house in Port Harcourt this week to protest the non-payment of their sala-ries and allow-ances,according to information reaching our correspondent.
The athletes,according to sources are eager to take their grievances to the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi whom they believe may not be aware of their plight.
‘We believe the governor is not aware that we are being owed for more than 10 months now. The deputy governor, Tele Ikuru is in-charge of sports and we fear recent developments over his movement back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have affected communication between him and the governor and that is why we want to see His Excellency to let him know this is hampering our preparations for the festival,’said Taiwo Suleiman,one of the athletes.
Rivers state emerged overall winners of the festival when it hosted in 2011 and came second at the Eko 2012 edition behind Delta state.
Governor Amaechi who has been the main pillar behind our success if it had held late last year or April this year.
Nigeria,’added Suleiman,the best 100m blind athlete in Nigeria.
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