Nigeria: Group Calls for ADRP Ratification

A group of civil society organisations (CSOs) has urged the Nigerian government to ratify the African Disability Rights Protocol (ADRP) of the African Union.

This call was made during the second round table on the African Disability Protocol Ratification for Nigeria, which was held via videoconference.

The meeting, Development Diaries gathered, was attended by the Chairperson of the ADRP Virtual Convention Local Committee, Rose Mordi; the Project Team Lead, on Special Needs Initiative for Growth, Racheal Inegbedion and the Founder of Cedar Seed Foundation, Lois Auta among others.

Reading the overview of the meeting, Inegbedion said the primary focus of the event was for the CSOs to have a framework that ensured effective consolidation of disability issues in all sectors, programmes of government and among the CSOs.

She said, ‘It is for us to ensure that there is full participation, inclusion, and representation of persons with disabilities in all levels of the society’.

‘But unless Africa sufficiently addresses the underlying structural and socioeconomic causes that compound the exclusion of persons with disabilities and the perennial exclusion of disability issues in programmes and budgets, our aspiration to have the ADP ratified in Nigeria, which is the giant of Africa, is likely to be impeded’.

Source: Punch

Photo source: Lois Nbwad Auta

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