Prince Adelabu, who is the leader of Ajimobi Disability Support Group, said the Governor-elect has evolved welfarist programmes that will wipe out poverty from the lives of the disabled persons in Oyo State.
Adelabu who was the former principal of Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled, Moniya, Ibadan said the incoming administration will execute certain programmes that will discourage disabled persons from begging for alms on the streets.
Speaking with Sunday Tribune in Ibadan on Tuesday, he said Ajimobi administration will appoint a disabled person as a commissioner and that each local government chairman will create a department for disabled persons, and a disabled person of special adviser status will head the department.
According to Adelabu who claimed that his group had concluded agreement with Ajimobi before the election, the welfarist programme shall include monthly allocation to the Disabled Persons Departments at the state and local government levels, creation of camps where disabled persons are to be settled and learning of trade and acquisition of skills, provision of fund for disabled persons to set up business and special welfare package for those who cannot do anything.
Adelabu also stated that bursary allowance and scholarship will be made available to brilliant disabled persons, while each ministry shall grant employment to them.
He said within the first hundred days of Ajimobi’s administration, beggars would be flushed out from the streets of Ibadan and its environment and laws prohibiting giving of alms to the beggars on the street will be promulgated.
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