The Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Hon. Osei Bonsu Amoah has cautioned members of the Adamrobe community in the Akuapem South Municipality of the Eastern Region against abandoning their physically challenged children.
According to pieces of information gathered by mybrytfmonline.com indicates that the Adamrobe community is arguably having a large number of physically challenged individuals in the municipality.
Even though the cause or causes leading to the unfortunate situation in the farming community which shares a boundary with Oyibi in the Greater Accra Region is or are yet to be established, parents for reasons best known to them have neglected their physically challenged children.
To this, the deputy minister who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) and represents the people of Akuapem South Constituency under the flag of the New Patriotic Party has cautioned the residents to put a stop to the practice.
He explained that the ruling government has increased disability funds from 2 percent to 3 percent with a sharp innovation of disbursement through the acquisition of working tools to ensure economic sustainability.
The Akuapem South Constituency MP who is affectionately known in the political atmosphere as O.B Amoah made the remarks when the Akuapem South Municipal Assembly presented various items to some cross-section of physically challenged individuals in the area.
The items include Sewing machines, hairdressing machines, Stocked containers, distribution of Deep Freezers, Scholarship, and many others to the disabled.
He indicated that the items which are expected to be religiously used by these physically challenged individuals would go a long way to improve their living standard through sustainable economic activities.
The Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development indicated that the standard of living of PWDs must be improved by eliminating the gap between such persons and ordinary citizens.
He asked the general public to desist from addressing persons who live with disabilities as “disabled”.
Hon. O.B. Amoah promised government readiness and commitment to pay more attention and offer support to persons living with disabilities to disabuse the notion that persons with disabilities are not important towards national development.
He further encouraged the people in the area to take advantage of the free school policies to help people with disabilities and shy away from keeping their physically challenged children in their rooms for lack of money or otherwise.
The soft-spoken MP who is seeking fourth time re-election disclosed passionately appealed to individuals and private entities to complement government efforts through donations to such persons.
He noted that the 3% Common Fund for Persons with Disability is allocated to help address the several challenges that confront these persons in the various parts of the country and therefore cautioned authorities to desist from diverting the limited funds allocated to PWDs.
Meanwhile, the MP last Thursday filed to represent the people of Akuapem South Constituency under the flag of the New Patriotic Party for the fourth consecutive time.
The MP who first contested the seat in 2008 has expressed confidence in the NPP winning the 2020 election following the fulfillment of promises made by the party before the 2016 election.
Even though he claimed the party would record another resounding victory, he called on all parliamentary aspirants to work tirelessly to have majority representation in parliament to help the agenda of the president.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com
