The office of the Anambra State Governor on Disability Matters has
commenced a sensitization tour to their members in all the twenty one
local government areas of the State.
The tour which kicked off from Oyi and Anambra East Local Government
Areas witnessed large turnout of the members of the association.
Correspondent Chibuzor Okoye reports that the tour according to the Special Adviser to the Governor on
Disability Matters, Barrister Chuks Ezewuzie was to interact with
their members to know how they are faring and their challenges, as
well as to know what they have done with numerous governments’
interventions given to them.
He also said it aimed at enlightening them on so many programmes and
interventions the Obiano administration had in stock for them so that
they will key into them.
The Anambra state chairman, Joint National Association of Persons with
Disabilities, Comrade Ugochukwu Okeke who is equally the Executive
Assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on Disability Matters said that he
is impressed with what their members are doing with some of the
interventions of the State government and made it clear that before
the end of the sensitization tour which will cut across all Local
Government Areas of the State, their members would be able to
understand what the state government reserved for them and how to
benefit from it.
The Oyi local government coordinator of the Joint National Association
of Persons with Disabilities, Miss Ifeoma Onukogwu, thanked the team
for the visit and appreciated Governor Obiano for his love and care
to them, even as he narrated some of their challenges to the team,
which Office of the Governor on Disability Matters promised to tackle.
The Special Assistant to the Governor on Sign Language Communications,
Mr. Collins Joseph was on hand to make communication easy for the deaf
and dumb during the visit, while the event climaxed with donation of
bags of rice to the members of the two Local Government Areas visited
by the team, as part of measures to cushion the economic effects of
COVID-19, while light refreshments helped to also put smiles on their
faces.
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