JONAPWD Seeks Employment For Members

The President, Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD) Patrick Ene, has appealed to the Federal Government to provide employment opportunities to members of the association nationwide.

Ene made the appeal while speaking in an interview with The Tide  in Lagos.

He disclosed that 25 of his members participated in the recently conducted interview by the Federal Civil Service Commission.

“We are calling on the Federal Government to consider people with disabilities for employment.

“Disabled persons with good qualifications need to get employed in private and public organisations.

“The country should also remember the heroics of our paralympians at the just concluded London summer Olympics games and try to employ those willing to work,“ Ene said.

He said that the performance of the paralympians proved to all Nigerians that there is “ability in their disability“, if given the opportunity.

“Hence they must be given equal chances as their able-bodied counterparts, “ he said.