Change is not just a transformation from one position to another, it is also an experience that comes with a feeling of either pain or relief.
This is often the promise of the government to the people, with an assurance of the very best they ever can think of.
But life does not only become better for the people when capable hands are in power, the people enjoy the best dividends also where the government’s agenda upholds human values above others.
Our reflection as persons with disabilities on the masses’ outcry at this critical period is not different, though Oyo State government is doing everything possible to better our lot, but the question that begs for an answer is that is the Federal government even aware of our existence as a people or simply choose to leave us to the calamity of our status as non relevant individuals?
The trouble of the blind is not just how to walk freely within an environment, he or she will depend on an able individual to achieve that, and the same applies to a deaf who will require the service of somebody else to interpret for him. So, what is the hope of the disabled under the dispensation of this current Federal government, to what extent is her laid down programme, if there is any at all, aimed at changing our lot?
We are rather than taking to the streets calling on the Federal government to remember persons with disabilities in all the 36 States of the federation and do the needful as democracy stipulates.
Do not make life more difficult for us than it has already as we deserve the joy of citizenry as citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I am in the same vein imploring also every person with disability across to country to air their displeasure via all the social media platforms or handles they have access to so that this impasse of pain and agony as the current plight of the country reflects can be lurched to a halt.
Enough is enough!
Don’t treat us less as humans!!
-Barrister Ayodele Adekanmbi,
The D.G., Oyo State Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
