The National Paralympics Committee has applauded the Sports Ministry’s new decision to inform the country’s sports federations of possible events before hand. Pierre Clever Rwaka, NPC vice president, believes that the move gives the local sports federations enough room to plan their annual plans of action accordingly. “We are very optimistic that their pledge to start assuring us of which events of the action plan we give them will be possible. This will automatically end the event-disappointments that have stalked our federations,” said Rwaka. The Paralympics volleyball team was forced to call off its participation in this year’s World Cup in Cambodia due to financial incapability by the sports ministry and NPC insists that this is an example of their constant disappointment. Mijespoc is set to start handing out opted-events to respective federations every January so that they have standing schedules for their athletes. It’s in this regard that the Ministry has urged all national federations to legalize their respective institutions starting with individual clubs. Rwaka revealed that their members in NPC have no legal status but that they are working round the clock to beat September 17 dead line, which requires each national sports institution to have acquired legal status. He said that clubs had failed to register because they thought that it was very hard but that since the registration will be uniform, every thing will be done on time. Some federations and member clubs have been working without legal documents prompting the ministry to come up with this new strategy of which a non-registered institution won’t have access to the ministry support. A task force composed of qualified individuals from the federations and the Mijespoc has been formed to sketch a Statute modal of which clubs will follow in their registration process. However, Rwaka, who also the National Olympics Committee second vice president in charge of federations, suggested that for the sake of transparency, the ministry should involve federations to decide on the events that need priority. And he also called on the sports ministry to meet with national sports federation to try and sort out some of the outstanding problems stalking sports development in the country. Ends
