By Onyinyechi Amakaulo
The publishers of News Echo newspaper, News Insider magazine and the owner of Deking companies last week played host and fed Owerri Zonal Disables Association to mark the World International Day for people leaving with disabilities set aside by the World Health Organization, WHO.
Speaking during the event to mark the day for those with disabilities in his country home at Uzoagba in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, the Chairman/ CEO of Deking Group of Companies, Chief Chimezie Anosike Kingsley with a heart full of disappointment over the way special citizens are treated in Nigeria could not hold his feeling than to shed tears for the hope and future of the people leaving with disability in Nigeria.
He further added that his organization (First Care) National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), that is in Australia, is going to participate fully in making sure that disable people in Owerri zone are taken care of before going into Nigeria as he says charity begins at home.
Chief Chimezie Anosike Kingsley, the Ebubemba Ikeduru, reacted over the high level of neglect that is done to the special citizens in Nigeria, as he recalled the way people leaving with disability in other develop countries of the world are treated as number one citizens of the country.
He added that in Australia were he leaves with his family, that people with disability are given all the necessary attention in other for them to live like any other human being in that Country, as he wondered why Nigeria and Imo state government have refused to give attention to our brothers and sisters of our country.
The Deking boss noted that disability should not be a yard stick for people to treat our special citizens as if they’re not human beings like every other person in the world, adding that there is ability in disability.
He used the opportunity to promise the disable group of his support, by promising to build a center in lkeduru as Owerri center for them while he prays to do more for them so as to give them since of belonging in the land God has given their forefathers.
Contributing on behalf of the disabled people in Ikeduru and Owerri zone in general, comrade Emmanuel Obidike Idimogu chairman of the association through the secretary Atuogu Patrick and Hon Njoku Ekeledirichukwu outlined some of the challenges facing the association to appeal for a one 18-seater bus for the smooth run of the association, empowerment of keke bus business, financial support, skills acquisition and educational empowerment
They used the opportunity to inform the people of the state that for the past 20 years subvention has not been given to them unlike what it use to be before now.
In her vote of thanks, Miss Chituru thanked Ebubemba Ikeduru for the opportunity given to the association to have an interactive session with him as she pray God to bless and protect him for him to do great things for his generation .
High point of the event was presentation of two awards by the disable groups of Ikeduru branch and Owerri zonal Disable’s Association as the “life Patron” of the association.
