Nigeria's Paralympic Team Promises Good Outing.

A member of the Nigeria Paralympic team for the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports(IWAS) Junior Games, David Ombugudu has promised that the team would do the nation proud at the end of the games. as the Nigerian team departs on Thursday for the Games  starting on Friday.

 

Omgbugudu who is one of two wheelchair athletes taking part in the games holding at Stoke Mandeville Stadium in the United Kingdom, said games would present a perfect stage for them to prove their worth to the rest of the world and to their country men and women in particular.

 

Ombugudu will be vying for honours in the Table Tennis event, while Emmanuel Godwin will participate in powerlifting.

 

Both athletes are under 23 polio survivors who are living testimonies that saying, 'there is the ability in disability.'

 

The Nigerian contingent will be led by Rotary International Polio Ambassador in Nigeria, and founder of Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, SEOF, sir Emeka Offor, who has made polio eradication his number one priority from not only in Nigeria but the remaining endemic countries.

 

He will be launching a new program called “Differently Able," during the IWAS Games as the programme will focus on assisting polio survivors in Nigeria.

 

SEOF has provided financial support opf two point six million naira  to the Nigerian Paralympic team to enable them to take at the 2014 IWAS Games.