PWD group demands urgent implementation of Niger Disability Commission

The Executive Director of the Empowerment Initiative of Persons with Disabilities, EIPWD, Muhammad Abubakar Enagi, has called connected the Niger State Government to urgently instrumentality and operationalize the Niger State Disability Commission to code the challenges facing persons with disabilities crossed the state.

In a connection signed by Enagi and made disposable to journalists, the radical appealed to the Niger State Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, applicable ministries, agencies, improvement partners, and different stakeholders to expedite enactment connected the commission.

According to the statement, Niger State, contempt being 1 of the largest states successful Nigeria with thousands of persons surviving with disabilities, remains the lone authorities successful the North-Central portion without a functional Disability Commission.

The enactment noted that persons with disabilities successful the authorities proceed to look barriers successful accessing education, healthcare services, employment opportunities, societal extortion programmes a...