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LAFIA – A non Governmental Organisation (NGO), under the auspices of Advocacy for Women With Disability (AWWDI), on Tuesday urged journalists to help amplify the voice of women with disabilities in Nasarawa State.
The programme manager Mr. Kola Jayeoyba, made the appeal at a media engagement programme held in Lafia the Nasarawa State capital.
He said that the journalist are they voice of the voiceless people like persons with disabilities and less privileged people in the society.
Mr. Kola, who shared more light on the sexual representative right of persons with disabilities said that the general public especially health workers should respect their health right; added that they have the same feeling the way people without disabilities have.
The programme manager also averted that the reproductive right of disabilities was what is globally accepted by United Nations; added that the Nasarawa State had done well by domesticated disability right law in the state.
According to him,” This is also enshrined in all law that persons with disabilities should access sexual reproductive health right such as having opportunity to access hospital services in the society,” he said.
He further appealed to the journalists to sensitise the general public and the government on the need for government and the general public to allow persons with disabilities to have access to health facilities especially the one for sexual health right.
In her keynote address miss Asaba Aversion, the Nasarawa State coordinator Advocacy for Women With Disabilities said overtime women with disabilities had been left out on what was happening in the society because they lacks voice.
She added that today’s engagement with journalists she believed their voices would be amplifying in the society.
The state’s coordinator called on the government to enforced the right law of disability in the state so that they could feel inclusive on the scheme of things in the state.