Kogi State First Lady, Mrs. Amina Bello, has advised the government to enforce the provision of wheelchairs for physically challenged children and “shut down any school which discriminates against them.”

Mrs. Bello who is also the Founder of Hayat Foundation said this when speaking with journalists in Abuja how close friends and some family members mocked her for having a son who has cerebral palsy. Bello said she was advised to inject her son with a lethal substance to end the insults.

She said, “Schools which discriminate against children who are living with physical and developmental challenges should be shut down. Before you set up a school, it must be accessible to these children with special needs. You must have special teachers or therapists in every class and of course you should be certified fit to open a school for special needs children.

There is also the stigma which starts from your immediate environment. People will be whispering when a child with special needs or his parents are around. This has made a lot of parents to live in depression. This is the reason why some parents choose to live in denial and lock up such children. I was advised to inject my son with harmful substance and some people advised me to take him to the village.”

Bello called on government to make it compulsory for schools to provide wheelchairs in schools.

The foundation, according to her, will establish an institute that will focus on severe cases of cerebral palsy and open a training centre for behavioural and occupational therapists.


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Thanks God you didn't. Kogi people would have had nothing to relieve their pains or smile about.

Madam, forget all these deflection, tell your husband to pay workers. Their children are dying while some are committing suicide. The other day, na one physically challenged one una show us, abeg make una pay salaries joor.

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If I arrest you now , u wud be crying and begging

This woman fine oh , I nor talk that one oh

Have you ever thought there are families that's got same but are owed salaries by your bully-looking husbandi

it is great that she loves her son in spite of his challenges, that is the humane thing to do but to say schools will be shut down for not providing wheelchairs in a developping country like nigeria is too emotional.

Madam, pls tell ur husband to pay salary. no one is interested in u or ur son. At least your son have many reasons to smile, many physically challenged and bed ridden children don't coz of your husband's refusal to pay salary.

This woman is talking nonsense.
it's abnormal to think that the same school should be used for healthy students and students with special needs. She can close all the schools in Kogi, that's their cup anyway.