Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday signed
into law the state’s Disability Bill, warning parents of children
with disabilities to withdraw their children from the streets or be
prosecuted.
The governor said the law had taken care of almost all the needs
of the physically challenged in the state, which he said included
giving them empowerment, providing them with professional skills to
participate in building and other jobs. Speaking while signing the
bill into law at the Government House, Governor Ganduje said his
cabinet was concerned about the conditions of the physically-
challenged persons.
He said the law would give physically-challenged persons open
opportunity to professionally design buildings and even participate
in construction works and other professional jobs. Ganduje said the
new law also gave parents the opportunity to enroll their
physically challenged children into school and stop them from
begging on the streets so that they would become useful to
themselves.
In the same vein, the government promised to come up with a
social security system that would enable physically-challenged
children who could not do anything to receive allowances
monthly.
“What we are doing is to bring physically challenged persons
under government care through either social security or by
providing them with professional skills to have jobs for
themselves.”
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