Amosun tasks Ogun lawmakers on disability bill

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By Olu AJAYI (Abeokuta)

NIGERIA: OGUN State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has urged the state House of Assembly to quickly pass the bill to protect the interest and welfare of persons living with disability into law for him to sign it.

Amosun said: “Mr. Speaker, I am waiting for you and no controversy.  Now that it has been affirmed that the bill is with you, I am waiting for it, so I can assent to it and make it law.”

Amosun sent the message to the lawmakers while responding to a question in respect of the plight of Joint Association of People With Disability in the state at a town hall meeting held at June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta.

At the event, a blind member of the association, Oluwatomisin Adeyefa, had asked the governor what would be causing the delay in signing the bill, which was before the assembly, into law.

Adeyefa had said: “My name is Oluwatomisin Adeyefa from Joint Association of People With Disability, we want to thank you for your fatherly care for persons with disabilities.”

“We’ve always heard you celebrates international day for disability every third of December,” she said, adding that the association do empower its members by awarding them scholarship.

While urging Amsoun government to always emulate such gesture as a way to alleviate the sufferings of members of the association, Adeyefa told the governor on the bill said to be before the state House of Assembly and urged him to do something about it.

“If you alongside ‎empower the project and all of that and also assent to the forthcoming bill with the State House of Assembly that will take care of persons with disabilities in Ogun State and alleviate our sufferings,” she stressed.

“We are so afraid that when you leave the incoming governor will not take up people living with disabilities,” she further said, adding: “We appeal to you that that law should please celebrate international day of disabilities. The bill has passed through public hearing, so we are waiting for the final.”

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