Niger Delta
Edo Increases Employment Slots For Physically-Challenged
The Edo State Government has increased the employment slot for physically challenged persons from two per cent to 10 per cent.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Physically Challenged Persons, Comrade Ovenseri Iduozee, told newsmen on Wednesday in Benin that the gesture was to encourage the beneficiaries to have a sense of belonging as human beings.
He noted that the biggest challenge facing the physically challenged was discrimination, saying “it is wrong for anybody to discriminate against them, especially bearing in mind that they are indigenes of the state”.
Iduozee said since he assumed office in 2009, he had worked assiduously to ensure that the employment slot for the physically challenged was increased, and any form of discrimination against them was discouraged.
He said that 18 physically challenged persons had been absorbed into the state’s ICT programme, while 60 others were absorbed into the Board of Internal Revenue and one into the Ministry of Budgeting and Planning.
Iduozee said the Local Government Commission had also absorbed 15 each in 2010 and 2011 at different levels of employment.
He said the physically challenged were being favoured in admission and employment quota into Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, adding that government would soon initiate the same gesture in other sectors of the economy.
The special adviser appealed to physically challenged persons not to be discouraged whenever they seemed maltreated or discriminated against, urging them to always prove to people that “there is ability in disability”.
He appealed to the Federal Government and other state governors who had not appointed special advisers on the welfare of physically challenged persons to do so.
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