Ten Federation

About ten Federations have said that they are going to express their displeasure to the Hose Committee on Sport over the non inclusion of their sport in the forthcoming National Sports Festival  billed  for Port Harcourt Rivers State .President of the Scrabble Federation of Nigeria Engineer Toke Aka who spoke on behalf of these Federations said that they intend to use Stakeholders Forum with the House Committee on Sports in Abuja tomorrow to make their feelings known on the issue.He said though the Stakeholders Forum is meant    for Football they would use the opportunity to present their case for a look into other sports.The sports complaining of not being part of the National Sports Festival are Scrabble,Cricket,Squash,Rowing and Yachting,Fives,Baseball,Deaf sport and Parasoccer.Twenty five Sports will be vied for at the Sports Festival,20 of which were sanctioned by the National Sports Commission while the remaining five sporting event were picked by the host state of the National Sport Festival..Toke Aka further revealed that if there were know positive response from the forum they would hold a News Conference to drive home their point.