The People Living With Disabilities (PWDs) said they are interested in who becomes the next Senate President because whatever law made by the National
Okogun said: “Senator Osita Izunaso is a pragmatic leader, a man of trust and integrity, a man of probity and patriotism, committed to the All Progressives Congress, APC, young and academically sound.
“With all these qualities l, we can confidently say that Senator Osita Izunaso is a nationalist, and capable of leading the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” He also called on senator-elects to massively vote for Izunaso based on his pedigree and outstanding contributions to the stability of the Senate, and in the area of supporting the PWD community, where he was in the vanguard of ensuring the Bill on a National Commission on Persons With Disability was passed into law and signed by former President Muhammadu Buhari.
They also pointed out that for his love and passion for PWDs he had to establish a nonprofit organization called Kpakpando Foundation for persons with disability in 2005, and through the Foundation over 5000 persons in its membership, 500 persons in tertiary and secondary school scholarship schemes, established start-up businesses for over 3000 persons, and the Foundation spearhead struggle for establishment of the Disability Commission as it advocated for the Disability Rights Bill, and today...
Also the Foundation had added value to the lives of PWDs whom some have become big business men and women, and other have become beneficiaries of motorized and manual wheelchairs, crutches, good processing equipment, power generating machines, communication gadgets, sewing machines, grinding machines, and others.
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