by Chris Agbo
The Permanent Secretary of Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) Olusegun Adekunle has promised to work with Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) and other Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) if they forward to him in couple of days the implementation strategy document which can guide him to work to see to the establishment of National Disability Commission.
This was revealed to The Qualitative Magazine from a meeting held between the Executive Director, CCD David Anyaele, other leaders of disability community and the permanent secretary.
David Anyaele speaking to the press after the meeting which held as result of the peace demonstration for the commemoration of one year of the passage of disability bill into law and to remind government about the pending implementation which establishment of a commission is paramount. He said that after the team raised section 2 which talks about awareness creation and section 31 which talks about the establishment of a National Disability Commission to oversee the implementation, the perm sec promised that they will do something but they will need implementation strategy document from the team in the coming days to aid their recommendations for the establishment of the commission. Mr. David said also that the Perm Sec apologized for keeping the group for so long at the gate. It happened because they were not aware of the reason for the visits.
Earlier, the group was prevented from having access to the premises of the SGF for over an hour and the group sat at the gate dancing prevented visitors to the SGF entrance before a team was sent to interact with them and pleaded that the leadership should follow them to the SGF. They also pleaded for the group to make way for their visitors which the group willingly obliged to.
