By Boluwatife Williams
Progressives Governor’s Forum (PGF) is planning a national summit of governors to extensively discuss the wellbeing of Persons With Disability (PWDs) to make them fully productive members of the society.
Chairman of PGF, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, according to statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abubakar Dakingari, will write all the governors and leaders of different PWD associations for collaborative fruitful deliberations on matters affecting all clusters of those with disability.
Bagudu affirmed this, yesterday, at the 31st national conference (Da’awah camp) of Association of Deaf Muslims in Nigeria (ADMUN) at Dr. Amina Abubakar Girls College, Birnin Kebbi.
The governor was responding to a request by participants from Zamfara State urging him to talk to their governor to improve the standard of the school for persons with special needs in Zamfara.
He made it clear that issues of PWDs’ wellbeing would best be solved through collaboration among the states in the federation.
Affirming the commitment of his administration to sustain moral and material support to people with special needs towards making them gainful members of the society, the governor informed the gathering that Kebbi Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education would brief them on their requests which could be provided immediately. He commended the association of hearing-impaired Muslims for striving to educate its members in every field, including Qur’anic knowledge.
Bagudu commended the Principal of Dr. Amina Abubakar Government Girls College, Salamatu Tafida, and her staff for being supportive to the success of the conference. He announced that each participant would receive transport allowance from the government for their journey back to their states.
The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Hassan Shalla, thanked the governor for rehabilitating the school for persons with special needs in Zauro, providing free uniform and feeding to the pupils as well as the provision of N5,000 termly to each pupil as transport money on vocation.
However, the governor has engaged two consultants from the University Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, to treat pupils whose condition could be redeemed, saying that such pupils were receiving treatment at the hospital in Maiduguri and would be discharged soon.
The principal thanked the governor for his fatherly care to students and improvement on the quality of education at all levels through infrastructural development and provision of necessary teaching and learning materials.
Contributors to the discussions requested the governor to provide them with scholarships, employment in the civil service and vehicles to ease transportation difficulties.
They further solicited the employment of interpreters for deaf sign language in the Adamu Augie College of Education, Kebbi Television, Schools, hospitals and courts.
Source: The Guardian
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