Nasarawa Publishing Company boss promises wider publicity for physically challenged
- By Super Admin
- Published 09/4/2010
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In a collective resolve to improve the living standards of physically challenged persons in Nasarawa State, the general manager, Nasarawa Publishing Company (NPC) Limited, Malam Abubakar M. B. Ibrahim, has promised to use the two publications to highlight the plight of the physically challenged with a view to giving them a sense of belonging.
The general manager, who stated this when members of the Nasarawa State Rehabilitation Board paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Lafia, said “God has not finished the fashioning out of the human being until he or she dies”, explaining that their condition was predestined by God.
He stressed that in order to support the physically challenged persons in the state, everything must be put in place to ensure that they partake in reasonable activities that would improve their lives, as well as develop the state, saying, “It is the responsibility of all to look into the lives of the physically challenged and for this, NPC is ready to give them adequate publicity through its publications.”
Malam Ibrahim commended the state governor, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma for constituting the governing board, saying that it would help to improve the lives of the physically challenged people and give them a sense of belonging.
While thanking the board members for their commitment, support and for ensuring that all stakeholders key into the plight of disabled persons, he assured of the organization’s readiness to partner with the board so as to enable it achieve its set goals.
Speaking earlier, the acting chairman of the board, The Utusoho of Agashi, His Highness, Moses Alade, who led the delegation, said that the aim of their visit to the organization was to solicit for partnership with the board in line with the desire of the state government to improve the living conditions of the state’s physically challenged populace and address their unique challenges through the creation of awareness in the media.
The acting board chairman noted that like every other human beings, the physically challenged persons have the rights to life, protection from discrimination, access to information, education and healthcare.
He called for collective efforts towards supporting the physically challenged persons, saying that this would help to improve and change their lives for the better.
The general manager, who stated this when members of the Nasarawa State Rehabilitation Board paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Lafia, said “God has not finished the fashioning out of the human being until he or she dies”, explaining that their condition was predestined by God.
He stressed that in order to support the physically challenged persons in the state, everything must be put in place to ensure that they partake in reasonable activities that would improve their lives, as well as develop the state, saying, “It is the responsibility of all to look into the lives of the physically challenged and for this, NPC is ready to give them adequate publicity through its publications.”
Malam Ibrahim commended the state governor, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma for constituting the governing board, saying that it would help to improve the lives of the physically challenged people and give them a sense of belonging.
While thanking the board members for their commitment, support and for ensuring that all stakeholders key into the plight of disabled persons, he assured of the organization’s readiness to partner with the board so as to enable it achieve its set goals.
Speaking earlier, the acting chairman of the board, The Utusoho of Agashi, His Highness, Moses Alade, who led the delegation, said that the aim of their visit to the organization was to solicit for partnership with the board in line with the desire of the state government to improve the living conditions of the state’s physically challenged populace and address their unique challenges through the creation of awareness in the media.
The acting board chairman noted that like every other human beings, the physically challenged persons have the rights to life, protection from discrimination, access to information, education and healthcare.
He called for collective efforts towards supporting the physically challenged persons, saying that this would help to improve and change their lives for the better.
