Persons with disabilities are always willing and ready to exercise their franchise.
PWDs in their numbers across the country turned out to vote for the candidate their choice.
However, @inecnigeria remove all barriers for improved participation of PWDs.
#NigeriaElections2023
It's election O'clock.
We have deployed observers across Nigeria to assess the compliance of INEC to the provisions for PWDs in the 2022 Electoral Act.
#NigeriaElections2023#NigeriaVotes2023#CCD
State:Lagos
LGA: Kosofe
Ward : Ajao
PU : 046
Information: Cubicle is placed on a gutter and between two flower pots. This will make cubicle inaccessible to PWDs.
Polling unit (PU 041, Ward E, Ilorofu West, Lagos State) is located in an elevated area making accessibility difficult for PWDs.
This is the picture of person on wheelchair carried to where to cast his vote.
@BONewsService#disabilityinclusion#PWD#NigeriaElections2023
The #DisabilitiesAct stipulates a five-year transitional period for modifying public buildings, structures, and automobiles to make them accessible and usable for people with disabilities... how much of that is going on especially at airports? @DOanyaele@CCDNigeria
The National Disabilities Commission, if set up, will be empowered to receive complaints of rights violations and support victims to seek legal redress amongst other duties. what are the hopes that the #Commission will be set up soon? @DOanyaele@ProfOsinbajo@CCDNigeria
Putting @MBuhari@NGRPresident statement "I have directed Dat all relevant Government agencies pay special attention 2 the peculiarities of #PWDNIG in the formulation & implementation of their policies and programmes & where suitable their employment into action
The challenge is that HM @hadisirika@FAAN_Official @FMHDSD are not aware of this statement by @MBuhari I have directed that all relevant Government agencies pay special attention to the peculiarities of persons with disabilities in the formulation and implementation of POLCY
This is the statutory agency responsible for the generation of giudelines and policy framework for the inclusion of #PWDNIG in government programs and activities. Assuming that this commission is there maybe no exposure 2 airport difficult in face of #Covid-19 by @hadisirika
I feel dissatisfied The none consideration of persons with disabilities d guidelines for reopening of airports is a careless discrimination of persons with disabilities by @hadisirika Prior 2 d advent of ds pandemic I personally drew his attention to ds issue #AccessibleAirport