Abia State Assembly lawmakers have passed into Law, the Abia State Disability Commission.
Recall that Persons Living With Disabilities (PLWD) had in July held a peaceful protest in Umuahia, the capital seeking for the passage of the Disability Bill into Law.
The group during the protest said that PLWD a bill if passed into law would grant its members equal rights with other citizens of the state.
Mrs. Christiana Onyemauwa who spoke to journalists said that they were not getting what is due to them over the years, except what they described as unkept promises.
Wisdom Okechukwu, Chairman of disabled in the state disclosed that the bill has been lying at the House of Assembly for a long period without any meaningful breakthrough.
He disclosed that all efforts by the association to get the bill passed into law has been unsuccessful.
Princess Ngozi Nwaguru, Woman leader of the association while lamenting the inability of their members to be employed by the state government called for urgent passage of the bill into law.
A source at the State House of Assembly who spoke anonymously said that the plight of the disabled persons was a source of concern to the lawmakers.
The source promised that the lawmakers would do all that they could to ensure that the bill was passed into law.
The lawmakers during their plenary on Wednesday while considering the Bill for a Law to Establish the Abia State Commission for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (H.A.B. 23:) in a motion moved by the Majority Leader of the House, Hon Solomon Akpulonu and seconded by the Minority Leader, Hon Chijioke Chukwu, dissolved to the Committee of the Whole for the purposes of considering H.A.B. 23.
It was gathered that after amendments and corrections of the pages, the Bill was referred back to plenary as the House reverted back to full plenary after a motion moved by the Majority Leader and seconded by the Minority Leader.
At plenary, the Speaker was said to have reported proceedings from the Committee of the Whole concerning H.A.B. 23 as deliberated upon including the corrections therefrom.
The Bill after going through the necessary legislative processes and subsequent approval of all the sections of the Bill, was passed into Law.
The Law, infonet9ja.com reports would be cited as “The Abia State Commission for Disabled Persons Law”.
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Other Items on the Order Paper were deferred to be considered on another Legislative Day.
