SENATOR STELLA ODUAH CO-SPONSOR'S MOTION ON ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION FOR THE DISABLED

In today’s plenary, Senator Stella Oduah Co-Sponsored a Motion on:

Adequate Provision of Inclusive and Accessible  Basic Education for Children with Disabilities in Nigeria.

The Motion which was Sponsored by Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu representing Imo North, was to address the challenges the disable people among us face to acquire education and socialize themselves accordingly. While delivering the motion in his lead debate, Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu noted that World Report on Disability published in 2011, states that about 25million Nigerians had at least one disability.

Furthermore, he stated that about according to UNICEF data, 95% of children with disability in developing countries are out of school.

Accordingly, he emphasised that Nigeria has signed up to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Goal 4, with a target by 2030 to ensure all school children including those with disabilities have access to qualitative, functional  and effective basic education.   

He opined that If disabled children are giving the conducive environment to thrive and grow their potentials, they will competently contribute their quota to National Development.

The Senate resolved accordingly:

i.                    Call on the Senate Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development to summon the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development to brief the committee on the progress made towards improving welfare of the disabled in Nigeria

ii.                  Call on the Federal Ministry of Education to improve on their policy making, institutional development and infrastructural development to promote inclusive and increased educational access for children with disabilities in Nigeria

iii.                Call on the Federal Govt to make provisions for the welfare and sadfety of the disabled on all public buildings, schools and roads.

Objectives of the motion:

i.                    The motion will address the imbalance in educational sector that deprives the disabled yearly

ii.                  It will comply with the SDG goals targeted to meet certain educational requirements by 2030

iii.                It will compel FG to begin to plan for the disabled in Nigeria as it is done in civilised nations where schools, buses, social security etc are all provided for the disabled in the society to assist them to survive in the mist of their challenges

iv.                It will help Govt to keep accurate statistics of all the disabled in the country.

v.                  It will propel the development of infrastructure to accommodate the plight of the disabled in our mist

vi.                It will compel the FG to begin to plan on how to create a sustainable social security for the disabled.

The motion was passed comfortably on the floor of the Senate as no Senator spoke against it.

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