GOVERNOR AMOSUN PLEDGE TO SIGN DISABILITY BILL INTO LAW SOON
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has made pledge to sign into law, a bill to protect interest and welfare of persons living with disability.
Amosun gave the assurance while responding to a question in connection with the plight of Joint Association of People With Disability in the state,at a town hall meeting held at June 12 Cultural Centre,Abeokuta.
A blind member of the association,Oluwatomisin Adeyefa had earlier took up the governor over delay in signing the bill into law.
‘My name is Oluwatomisin Adeyefa from Joint Association of People With Disability. We want to thank you for your fatherly care for persons with disabilities. We’ve always heard you celebrates international day for disability every 3rd of December‘,she noted.
Speaking further, she said the association on its part,do empower members with scholarship,and therefore encouraged government to always emulate such move,as a way to alleviate the association sufferings.
She drew governor’s attention to the bill said to be with the State House of Assembly,and pleaded that,he should as soon as possible sign the bill into law.
‘If you alongside empower the project,and all of that,and also assent to the forthcoming bill,with the State House of Assembly,that will take care of persons with disabilities in Ogun State and alleviate our sufferings’,the blind member said.
‘We are so afraid that,when you leave,the incoming governor will not take up people living with disabilities. We appeal to you that,that law should please celebrate international day of disabilities. The bill has passed through public hearing,so we are waiting for the final’,she explained.
However,in his response, Governor Ibikunle Amosun asked the House of Assembly to speed up action on the bill, and he(Amosun) was also waiting anxiously for it to sign it into law.
‘Mr Speaker, I am waiting for you and no controversial. Now that it has been affirmed that,the bill is with you, I am waiting for it,so I can assent to it and make it law’, Amosun emphasised
