Kitgak Gombwer is a person with physical disability from Kabwir town in Kanke local government of Plateau state. He was born with disability into a family of ten children, his father married three wives.
In an interviews with TQM conducted by Bulus Bala Izang and Joshua Yenle, he shared how he did not allowed disability to deter him from doing something to earn a living.
TQM. What are you doing for a living?
I am selling sugarcane by a filling station near our house here in Kabwir.
TQM. The sugarcane you are selling, is it from your farm?
No, I buy it from major suppliers, usually I buy three to four canes and cut it for fifty and hundred naira, displaying them on my table for people to buy.
TQM. Who trained you in the trade of selling sugarcane?
Nobody, after my secondary school education, I was staying at home doing nothing much, then the idea of doing this business came to me. I saved money and started it.
TQM. Oh, you was at Secondary, Please mention the names of the schools you attended?
I first started at RCM primary school Kabwir, and after I completed, I went to Government Secondary School Kabwir.
TQM. You did not go to Higher Institution, after your secondary education?
Yes
TQM. May we know why?
I don’t have anybody to sponsor me.
TQM. Who paid for your primary and secondary education?
My parents.
TQM. Aside from selling sugarcane, are you engaged in any productive activity?
I used to have a farm that I pay people to cultivate it for me, allocated to me by the family, but one of my elder brothers collected it from me, he is the one now farming it. Even though I complained the matter to our parents, somethings positive is yet be done in my favor.
TQM. Why did your elder brother collect the farm from you?
The reason he gave, is that he is married
TQM. Are you married?
(He expressed unbelief with laughter) what kind of a lady would want to marry a deformed person like me?
TQM: That’s a very wrong way to think about yourself, there are so many persons with disabilities who have gotten married to very beautiful individuals.
TQM. Do people discriminate against you because of your disability?
Yes, but I try not to let that to worry me much
TQM. Have you ever applied for any financial assistance to start or increase your business?
No.
TQM. What would your appeal for assistance be to anyone reading your story?
My appeal is, I should be help with finance to start a provision shop, and I would like a scholarship to go back to school.
TQM. Thank you for granting us this interview.
Ans. thank you.
