{"id":7206,"date":"2023-11-21T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T10:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T10:04:57","slug":"pwd-house-of-representatives-pledges-commitment-to-enforcing-disability-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/21\/pwd-house-of-representatives-pledges-commitment-to-enforcing-disability-act\/","title":{"rendered":"PWD: House of Representatives Pledges Commitment to Enforcing Disability Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Disability, Hon. Bashir Dawodu, has affirmed the panel’s commitment to the comprehensive enforcement of the Persons with Disability Act. Dawodu mentioned ongoing efforts to re-enact the Act, acknowledging significant gaps that amendments alone cannot address.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a media parley for World Children Day, focusing on Children with Disabilities and the Disability Act 2018, he emphasized the Committee’s engagement with the challenges faced by Persons with Disabilities (PWD). Dawodu highlighted plans to gather stakeholder input through a public hearing for the amendment, stating that the Child\u2019s Right Act also requires amendments to address concerns raised by the PWD community. Additionally, Speaker Tajudeen Abbas has sanctioned the use of sign language in the chambers to enhance communication with PWD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On her part, the Executive Director, Women and Girls with Albinism Network, Constance Onyemeachi said that children with albinism are first targets for rape and child trafficking. \u201cThere is child with albinism I met in an orphanage in Kuje Area Council whose parents are still alive but the community wanted to kill the child and the parents had to send her to the orphanage. She cannot go home, not because are parents are dead, she is seen as a taboo and cannot grow up in her community like any other child just because she was born with albinism,\u201d she sad.<\/p>\n

Itodo Yusuf, a PWD said that law and its implementation is the fulcrum for rights protection. Yusuf who is a legal practitioner said that he had observed that in all the laws in the country, the right of children with disabilities is not well spelt out. He said that the African Union Charter on Persons With Disabilities come with elaborate provisions but the Nigerian Child Right Act, which is a product came with limitations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn section 16 of the Child\u2019s Right Act, it talks about special measures for special children or children with special needs. But it comes down to say, whatever provision that will be made for them would be subject to availability of funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat limitations is a big problem for us, we need to visit that provision particularly the sub-section 2, we need to remove that limitation on funding. This is Nigeria, there are resources to go round, if other children can be catered for, child with disabilities or special needs should also be catered for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Disability, Hon. Bashir Dawodu, has affirmed the panel’s commitment to the comprehensive enforcement of the Persons with Disability Act. Dawodu mentioned ongoing efforts to re-enact the Act, acknowledging significant gaps that amendments alone cannot address. Speaking during a media parley for World Children Day, focusing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}