PLWDs Hail Alia For Inclusive Governance

People Living With Disabilities (PLWDs) successful Benue State person hailed Governor Hyacinth Alia for his efforts successful promoting the rights of persons with disabilities successful the state.

The authorities president of the Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWDs), Onah Adeyi, who gave the commendation during a property league successful Makurdi, thanked the politician for taking the plights of persons with disabilities with each seriousness, describing the governor’s enactment of assenting to the Disability Law arsenic a historical accomplishment that volition not beryllium forgotten successful a hurry.

The association, therefore, promised to enactment the re-election bid of the politician successful 2027.

Adeyi said, persons with disabilities represent 15 per cent of the Benue colonisation which ought not to beryllium dismissed by the question of the manus during elections and governance but the travel of inclusivity done the disablement instrumentality began during Governor Gabriel Suswam’s administration.

“We privation to besides widen our appreciation to the Benue State House of Assembly, the media, civilian nine organisations, particularly the Aza Gbagyo Foundation, for their sustained enactment which has brought america to this success”.

“Your excellency, similar Oliver Twist, we are besides appealing to you not to relent successful ensuring that the disablement committee is arsenic good established arsenic soon arsenic imaginable with each its constitution structures arsenic enshrined successful the Constitution.

“To the full disablement community, I privation you to  enactment the Governor successful immoderate mode you tin successful his quest to bring backmost the Benue of our dreams particularly successful his bid for inclusive governance. I privation to convey you for your resilience and determination, your voices person been heard and your rights are present protected by law.

“Over 800,000 persons with disabilities successful the authorities volition payment from this landmark authorities that volition enactment Benue State connected the affirmative representation of states that person domesticated the disablement instrumentality arsenic a measurement successful the annals of disablement inclusion successful Nigeria,” helium said.

Earlier, the enforcement manager of Aza Gbagyo Foundation, Barr. Mtemdoo Gbagyo, who commended Governor Alia for cutting abbreviated the travel of decades successful a fewer weeks, said, “history volition not hide you.

“I privation to sincerely convey the politician for taking upon himself the plight of persons with disabilities and making Benue to beryllium among archetypal states to domesticate this law. We cognize however we were struggling beforehand and backmost to guarantee the domestication of this instrumentality twelvemonth successful twelvemonth out, disablement persons person a batch to connection for the improvement of the authorities and country. They should not beryllium looked upon with pity, but with spot to alteration them to bring retired the abilities successful them.”