A non-governmental organisation on the platform of Center for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) has admonished Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) to prepare action plans before embarking on rights advocacy.
To this end, the center, Tuesday, trained PWDs on rights advocacy and advocacy action plan in Benin City, Edo state.
The training has as its theme: “Promoting inclusive economic opportunities and community resilience for Persons with Disabilities.”
The acting director, CCD, Mr. Godwin Unumeri, aid the workshop was in collaboration with Project Enable Africa with support from the US – Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund.
Unumeri noted that the training is geared to build the capacity of PWDs to be economically resilient and identify advocacy issues.
He said, “The workshop would build the PWDs capacity to understand the content of advocacy, advocate in a corporate manner and insist on their rights- using disability models in line with national disabilities laws.”
Continuing, the CCD Director said: “We came here with the mindset that Edo does not have a law that guarantee the rights of PWDs in the state.
“We only just got to know from them now that a law has been passed to that effect but has not been implemented in the state.
“What I can say is that the people who advocated for the passage just sat down and watched since after the passage of the law.
“Today’s workshop will expose them to the knowledge of advocacy that will help push issues in the disability law that have been passed and help them articulate themselves in going about the advocacy,” he added.