Gov. Al-Makura Umaru of Nasarawa State has implored the National Assembly to hasten the process of harmonising the bill on Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) for the President’s assent.
Al-Makura made this call on Monday in Abuja at the 12th Anniversary of the Kpakpandu Foundation for Persons With Disabilities, with the theme ‘’Inclusiveness’’.
Commending the foundation for its endeavour to integrate and empower the PWD, Al-Makura noted that the PWD bill would internalise values of inclusiveness to improve the group.
He decried the discrimination of all sorts being faced by the disabled in the country, adding that mainstream programmes were all that they needed to encourage them.
“I appeal to Nigerians to reduce the level of discrimination on PWDs. The discrimination is so much that they cannot live their normal lives, they…
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