Paralympic Officials Begs President Goodluck Jonathan Over Unpaid Balance.

An appeal has gone to the President Jonathan Goodluck and the honourable Minister for Sports,Mallam Bolaji Abdulahi over the unpaid balance of Paralympic officials as directed by the President.

The president had at an award dinner in honor of the country's team to the last London 2012 Paralympic Games to the athletes and all their officials. But the National Sports Commission,(NSC) paid some officials and left out some claiming that they are not officials.

The affected officials, the loaders, medical and machine repairer at a media briefing held at the Lagos Swan Secretariat Saturday said that the NSC paid 500,000 thousand and 1million naira as against the 2.5million announced by the President.

The aggrieved officials informed that they were accredited for the games as officials and that if they were not officials as been claimed now by the NSC, they will not have access to the games village and event venues.

They also disclosed at the briefing that, they are the ones loading weight for the Special athletes and even act as helper to them during the training tour and the games proper.

 ''We are appealing to the President to please come to our rescue because others have been paid while we are yet to get our full payment. Also, the minister should help us because we don't know while ours is not yet paid, this is our sweat and should not be denied of this gesture'', they said .

While reacting to the development, the Special Assistant, Media to the minister, Julius Ogunro said that the affected persons were not officials that the ministry' 'just help them''.

Meanwhile, information available to sportsweight.blogspot.com showed that there names were on the list of officials sent to the presidency for the award.