The Kebbi State Government is set to establish a commission for persons with disabilities.
The move according to Commissioner for Information and Culture Alhaji Yakubu Ahmed is to ensure all-inclusive governance in the state.
Ahmed disclosed this in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday while briefing newsmen shortly after the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Nasir Idris.
“The decision to establish the commission was reached at the meeting where the council sent the bill to the legislature.
“This came about as a result of a BBC Hausa programme, “A Fada a Cika” on January 1, where some persons with disabilities complained directly to the governor.
“They complained that the decision was taken by many states, that it was a national matter approved by the National Assembly, and that most of the states have established the commission, while Kebbi is one of the few states that have not done so.
“After hearing the complaint from some persons living with disabilities during the programme, the governor directed the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of the state to quickly prepare the bill and bring it to the council’s meeting for onward transmission to the state House of Assembly for approval,” he said.
He said the governor is committed to sign the bill into law as soon as it has been passed by the Kebbi State House of Assembly.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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