Persons with disabilities in Cross River State have decried the non-establishment of National Commission for people with disabilities as its enshrined in Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act 2018.
Speaking while receiving palliatives from Engr. Ben Akak Foundation, the Chairman of JONAPWD. Cross River State, Comrade Offiong Okon, lamented their neglect and poor conditions.
“We plead with federal government to establish the National Commission for Persons with disabilities. This has been what we have been hammering for a long time,” he said.
The people pointed out that federal government has established National Commission for Women, Youths Council but National Commission for People with Disabilities is not attended to.
Comrade Okon also called on the state governors across the country to establish disability deck in offices in all the local government areas across the country.
He explained that the National Commission and disability deck in offices would bring their problems to the fore with a view to getting them solved.
“We have been neglected for a very long time, nobody cares about us or fight for us, our situation was not caused by us,” the people stated.
