The Disability Rights Advocacy Centre (DRAC), wants the establishment of Disability Right Commission to monitor compliance with the provision of Act.
At the Breakfast meeting with the media, the Executive Director, Irene Patrick-Ogbogu said no action has been taken one year after the bill was signed into law.
The theme of the Breakfast meeting is expanding the role of the media in disability inclusion.
According to her, the media can ask questions because it’s one year already since the bill is signed to law yet there hasn’t been action by the government.
She said the Head of the Commission should be headed by a person with disability, thereby putting persons with disability in inclusion of governance.
She further explained that the journey towards having a disability act, started 18 years ago and has been through many processes in the 8th assembly was signed in into law in 2019.
She said the law prescribes so many helpful and favorable policies for persons with disabilities and will impact positively with them.
“The act prohibits all forms of discrimination with persons with Disability interms of access to Education, employment among others
“Persons with Disability are excluded with so many forms of life . We also want to see where state actors adopt or domesticate the disability act at all state levels ,” she said.