Angry members of Joint National
Association of Persons with Disability
[JNAPD] numbering over 200 have
demonstrated at the federal
government office of Subsidy
Reinvestment Empowerment
Programme [SURE-P] in Umuahia
and destroying all the window blades,
chairs and tables over alleged neglect
by the office.
Speaking with The Nation in
Umuahia after their demonstration,
the state chairman of JNAPD Stanley
Onyemaechi said that the SURE-P
was designed to accommodate
people like them, but that they have
been neglected by the members of the
board in the state.
Onyemaechi said that he attended a
workshop in Calabar in the month of
March this year, where they were told
that their group are included in the
SURE-P programme and that up till
now that no member of the board of
the programme in that state have
gotten in touch with them.
He said that all attempts to get in
touch with the board chairman in the
state, David Nwokocha have proved
abortive and that they have not been
paid any amount of money, saying
that the board chairman said that
their group is not recognised by the
programme.
The Abia JNAPD chairman said that
he had visited the SURE-P office on
several occasions, “Without anything
to show to my colleagues and this
has made them to think that he
collects personal money from
Nwokocha, which is why I told to
come with me to fight for their right”.
Onyemaechi then called on both the
federal and state governments to
involve them in the SURE-P
programme, “We deserve to be
involved in the programme as we are
Nigerians and should be involved
with any programme designed by the
federal government”.
He said that when President
Goodluck Jonathan announced the
programme that will take care of all
categories of the people in the
country, “We felt that our problems
are over, as every segment of the
society are expected to be involved in
the programme, but we are
disappointed with the things we are
seeing now”.
The JNAPD boss in Abia said that
they are about 6170 persons with
different forms of disability in the
state and that most of them are
graduates without jobs, “So we want
the federal government through the
SURE-P programme to include us, by
teaching skills or empowering those
of us with skills to establish
ourselves”.
Onyemaechi said that their
colleagues in other states have
benefitted from the SURE-P
programme in their states and
wondered why their own should be
different when the federal government
had already included them, saying
that they are suspecting foul play in
the activity of the programme in the
state.
However one of the members of the
board of SURE-P in the state,
Kingsley Ngunu said that the
programme is handled by Community
Service, Women and Youth
Empowerment [CSWYE] and that he
has heard their complaint which will
be handled accordingly.
Ngunu said that he is hearing about
their group for the first time and urged
them to come back on Thursday for a
meeting with the board members,
where their grievances will be
handled and assured them that their
problems will be taken care of.
He said, “I am just a member of the
board and I do not have the capacity
to tell you what we are going to do,
therefore I urge you to go home and
come back on Thursday with about
ten of your members for us to discuss
on the way forward. I think you have
a genuine case which we will look
into during the meeting”.
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/persons-disability-destroy-abia-sure-p-office/

Sure p.........?

Its now sure-problem

Sure-P.rison for some of them.

Never joke with people with disabilities,most esp DEAF A ND DUMB .If them break ur head,omo na caseless case be dat.

oooooo kool

I guess this supports the notion that there's ability in disability.

I love this. Violence is sometimes,the only language people understand in Nigeria. Besides,the society is fond of treating disabled people with either unsolicited sympathy and/or contempt.

Is it wrong that I find this hilarious?

lynpetra: Never joke with people with disabilities,most esp DEAF A ND DUMB .If them break ur head,omo na caseless case be dat.

*yawns*

caseless: *yawns*

Urinates inside his smelly mouth*

lynpetra: Urinates inside his smelly mouth*

*bites what produces/or thru whr the urine comes*

caseless: *bites what produces/or thru whr the urine comes*

*gives him a sticky slap*

lynpetra: *gives him a sticky slap*

*chop chop her rice-cooking hand and drinks water*