In a letter accusing the Government of Adamawa state under the administration of Rt Hon Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of discrimination, members of joint national association of persons with disabilities said his regime is refusing to recognise them in the state.
The letter signed by Engr Sani Sabo, Association’s Chairman accused Fintiri’s government of giving them disdain treatment as non-citizens after making frantic efforts to have an audience with him through a letter dated 19th June 2020.
The association in Adamawa have called on the attention of Governor Fintiri to know that the Constitution of Nigeria have given them equal right to be treated as any other without discrimination by all leaders.
“We wish to state that we have been discriminated against by your government and treated as non-citizen to section 42(2) of the constitution Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
“As member of this group, we accord the government every recognition as citizen of this country Section 16(2) of constitution (FRN) 1999 recognizes our existence as citizens.
“No wonder the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency President Mohammed Buhari appointed a person with disability as special; adviser on disable matter and went further to give the disable right act the force of law thereby establishing disable right commission with the appointment of person with disability as board members.” The letter read
In the letter, Union members of the group vowed to take any action that will compel the government to listen to them if within seven days they fail to give them audience and due recognition.
“We wish to reiterate that 7 days from today if the government of Adamawa State fails to give us audience as citizen, we will take all the necessary measures require as citizen enshrine in the constitution of our discrepancies in accordance with section 40 of the constitution Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.” The letter stated
