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US To FG: Give Electoral Access To People Living With Disabilities
The USA Authorities has urged the Nigerian Authorities to produce electoral entry to People Dwelling with Disabilities (PLWD) in Nigeria.
US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, made the choice in Abuja Thursday whereas addressing newsmen after a courtesy go to to the chairman of the Nationwide Charge for People with Disabilities, Hussaini Suleiman Kangiwa.
“They (disabled) will need to have a voice; and to have a voice, it is worthwhile to have entry to polling stations and ought to be acceptable for folk with seen impairment as an example.
“United States believes strongly that no society or nation succeeds till all its members are able to completely participate. That’s why we bought right here to talk to them on a number of of our programmes dealing with disable” she acknowledged.
On his half, Kangiwa acknowledged it was part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s imaginative and prescient to verify the incapacity group beloved inclusiveness.
He acknowledged Buhari had demonstrated this by signing the Discrimination In opposition to People with Disabilities (Prohibition) Bill 2018.
