Joint National Association Of Persons with Disabilities, Board of Trustees(BOT) on wednesday, released a list of activities to be carried out in their quest to restore a long lasting peace in JONAPWD.
This is a follow up to the end of court proceedings of the warring presidential candidates of the association recently in Bwari, Abuja.
Below is the statement sent to The Qualitative Magazine signed by The Deputy Chair/ Secretary of the BOT, Omotunde Ellen Thompson on behalf of the members.
PRESS STATEMENT
THE WAY FORWARD TO ACHIEVING LONG-LASTING PEACE IN JONAPWD
Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) Board of Trustee appreciates in special way members who were earlier in court that took a wonderful decision to withdraw their case for the interest of peace.
Recalling that BOT on November 20th 2018 released a letter banning the two members, Ekaete Judith Umoh and Barrister Yusuf Iyodo from parading themselves as the president of the association, having received petition from some concerned stakeholders and also establishing a fact that there are some irregularities that marred the election that produced two of them.
Based on the above, the BOT took control of the association to restore sanity and peace in the association. The process was stalled with the court cases, which by the grace of God have been struck out.
In view of this, the BOT have decided to return to their earlier decision of putting a process in place to restore a long –lasting peace to the association.
In order not to leave the association in a vacuum and for the interest of 31 million Nigerians with disabilities who were sub changed overtime due to the crisis, the BOT had decided to do the following:
1. Set up constitutional review committee in the next one week to kick start the process of reviewing the constitution of the association
2. Contract the services of an external auditor to audit the Association
3. In the next one month, call a congress to rectify and adopt the reviewed constitution, adopt the audited report, appoint new electoral committee to conduct a new election following the guidelines from a more acceptable constitution of the association.
The BOT appreciates the sacrifices already made by many to see to the end of this conflict and wishes to call on the support of all to ensure that the peace process started by BOT is completed for the good of 31 million Nigerians with Disabilities.
Signed:
Omotunde Ellen Thompson,
The Deputy Chairperson/Secretary, JONAPWD, BOT
Letter from BOT banning the two candidates from parading themselves as president of JONAPWD
BOT INFORMED ALL RELEVANT BODIES ABOUT THEIR POSITION
BOT POSITION ON THE COURT DECISION
