Saturday 16 August 2014

THE PLIGHT OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITY IN NIGERIA

Hello dear readers

How has been your weekend? Trust its been awesome. I just want to share with you  my guest post on olufamous.com. It isn't a motivational stuff, but a call to the society on the need to address a particular important issue which the society has consistently overlooked, which is: the plight of people with physical disability in Nigeria. I sincerely hope it will help in changing the orientation of Nigerians and stir in their hearts the need to make life more comfortable for persons living with disability.

Enjoy it



As a physically-challenged person, I have over the years observed that much is not being done to make life comfortable for persons with physical disability. This is probably due to the fact that we are a minority, and are therefore not given due consideration when key decisions are being taken by those in positions of authority.

Although our plight is glaring, yet only few persons have taken steps aimed at making life more comfortable for us - the best others have done is to sympathize with us. Although their sympathy is appreciated, that is actually not what we need. What we would have preferred them to do is to translate those sympathy into actions which could help address some of the challenges we face in our daily living.