Group Wants Special Ministry For Disabled In Rivers

The Rivers State Association of Physical Challenged Persons (APCP) has called on the Rivers State and local governments to create a special ministry and offices for disabilities affairs in the state.

Also called on the governments to includes disable citizens in the appointment of commissioners, Special Advisers, among others in the state and local governments areas.

The chairman of the Association Comrade Brown N. Saul who made the call last Friday in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, said the special ministry would reduced to its minimum the challenges confronting people with disabilities in the state.

According to him, the ministry would create job opportunity as well removed inequality syndromes, discrimination among citizens in the state.

He commended Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State for including the physically challenged citizens in his stream of administration programmes and policy in the state.

According to him, the administration of Governor Amaechi has added value and reduced discrimination of physically challenged persons to its barest minimum in the state.

Comrade Saul used the opportunity to appealed to the people in the position of trusts to be conscious of good governance that would promote positive changes and sustain justice and equity as enshrined in the rule of law.

He said without sustainability of justice the social-economic development will continue to be crawling.

Enoch Epelle