Ibrahim Tukur
For many years, persons with disability have been encountering a various form of discrimination from the government of all levels in Nigeria. From the on set of Nigeria’s democracy, nay, independence, there had been the executions of different, life-changing, life-saving and life-enhancing projects, and if meticulously observed, it will be shown that exclusively a very few numbers of persons with disability have benefited from it. The current administration in its bid to battle against abaject poverty, and thanks to the establishment of National Disability Commission, began to make a difference.
Persons with disability, for many years, have been using a various medium to battle the against the discrimination thrown at them by the government and clamour for their right but their efforts yield a slight result. Even though the current administration has enacted a law that prohibits discriminating persons with disability, the law is yet to be totally implemented.
Disability-based discrimination is a huge problem that seems to have abounded every nook and cranny of our country, and fighting against it entails the presence of a powerful element in the vicinity where the discrimination mostly existed.
Persons with disability in Nigeria receive a slight concern or attention from the government in term of employment, health, education, empowerment etc. This happens as a result of the fact that persons with disability do not have a voice who wil fight for them.
If this irrational discrimination must be eradicated, persons with disability should participate into politics where they will, for instance, play their roles or be advocates of a good leadership that will help the persons with disability.
Ibrahim Tukur
Inventorngw@gmail.com
07080254166
