NIGERIANS PUSH FOR DISABILITY BILL

SPECIAL HUMAN BEINGS SAY THAT PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN HAS NOT BEEN TOTALLY HONEST WITH THEM ,THEY INTEND TO SHOW THEIR ANGER BY VOTING HIM OUT OF OFFICE IF HE DOES NOT SIGN THE DISABILITY BILL ON HIS TABLE BETWEEN NOW AND THE START OF THE ELECTIONS.

NIGERIANS PUSH FOR DISABILITY BILL

……………………………….FIGHT OVER BILL NOW IN ITS 10^TH YEAR

………………………………NIGERIA HAS OVER 22 MILLION PERSONS LIVING WITH

DISABILITY

…………………………………PLACARD CARRYING SPECIAL NIGERIANS PROTEST JONATHAN’S SILENCE

…………………………………CLAIM THEY ARE CONTINUALLY HUMILIATED ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR CONDITIONS.

…………………………………….PLEAD WITH I.N.E.C TOP GIVE OUT PERMANENNT VOTERS CARDS TO MEMBERS

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

Rising from a brainstorming session, a consortium of civil society groups under the aegis of  Lagos Association for the Deaf, Nigerian Association of the Deaf Women, and the National Deaf Teachers  Association have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to as a matter of urgency go ahead to sign the bill on the Disability of People in Nigeria into law otherwise they will be forced to endorse General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress during the forthcoming elections.

Deaconess Beyioku Alashe said that  since they have no other nation that they can call their own then the leadership will have to sit up on the issue of disable persons in the polity.

She revealed that though in the run up to the general elections the Independent National Electoral Commission and other stakeholders have been saying that everybody will be carried along but this has not been the case.

She pointed out that they had waited for up to ten years believing that the various arms of the Nigerian legislature and everybody involved on the case of there bill will be honest enough to do what was right for them but this has not been the case.

Mr Suleiman of the National Deaf Teachers Association said that education was the key to the progress of any nation and therefore  they as specially created people actually have a voice and it was high time that the leadership listen to them.

In his own contributions, Mr Lateef Abgabiaka,Chairman of the Lagos state Association for the Deaf ,the state has signed the bill into law  and they were now enjoying the full benefits and therefore called on the Federal Government to do the same thing as well.

He assured that if the President did not do the needful they will have no option than to vote for General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress during the forthcoming elections.