IT IS TODAY TUESDAY and TOMORROW WEDNESDAY.
Massive call blitz to BAMANGA TUKUR.
We have FAITH in him. We believe he can end all these discriminations against us.
How many years will it take them to evolve the Disability Bill into an Act? H
ow long will it take us to have our own Nigeria Disability Rights Commission?
In 2007, I challenged the then Attorney General of the Federation Chief
Michael Aondoakaa during a public lecture held by Unilorin in his
honour. This was before thousands of distinguished personalities who
totally aligned with me, insisting it high time they finalize issues on
the Bill by enacting it into an Act. The Attorney General there and then
swore that IN TWO WEEK TIME, we would be seeing the Disability Act.
From TWO WEEKS, it is now SEVEN YEARS. Yes, SEVEN YEARS has passed and
we are still where we were in 2007 despite all the sweat, pains,
sleepless nights, etc we people with disabilities have passed through,
and are still passing through pushing the Bill. We want the world to
know the level of marginalisation, discrimination and dehumanization we
are passing through here in Nigeria. Everyone should bombade them with
texts, calls, e-mails, etc urging them to enact our Bill into an Act.
This Bill started as far back as 1990. Twenty-three years later, they
are still tossing it aside; whereas they enact several other Bills into
Acts few months after these Bills are initiated.
We the long
neglected people with disabilities are ANGRY. We are NOT taking it
anymore. Bombade them today and tomorrow. We believe in Bamanga Tukur.
He even has a disable in his family who is a good friend of mine. Though
very young, the brother living with disability holds a very respectful
political office. It shows he believe in ABILITY IN DISABILITY.
Northerners and Muslims have great respect and belief/faith in people
with disabilities. Pls bombade Bamanga Tukur, we are over 25million in
number and we say NO to the CONTINUOUS OPPRESSION we are daily subjected
to at the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.
What do FMWASD know about Disability? What have then done so far to
affect our live positively? NOTHING!!! Instead, they're fighting TOOTH
and NAIL to ensure FG don't take us out of their control. They are
fighting to ensure the Disability Act and evolution of a Commission
don't come to fruition. Everywhere we go, they trail after us,
destroying every plan, every sweat, every struggle we undertook. God,
I'm shedding hot tears.
At this juncture, I remember June/July last
year when as the very first Deaf female in the whole of Nigeria, and
perhaps West Africa to read Law(you can confirm from Joint National
Association of Persons With Disability{JONAPWD} national level and
Nigeria National Association of Deaf{NNAD}national level), I approached
that Federal Ministry of Women Affairs to assist me to engage a sign
language interpreter for my one year Law School course but they turned
me down with a letter of regret that stated no reason for the refusal. I
am still with that letter and can tender it anytime and anywhere
against them. FG government budgets hundreds of millionns into to office
yearly for Disability Causes, but they can't even assist me to engage
an interpreter which is their responsibility, despite that I'm the first
Deaf female to study Law in Nigeria. But they would do anything to
ensure we don't get out of their control; because of the money, yes the
hundreds and thousands of millions of naira FG yearly disburse to them
for our cause. Do you think they are happy when they see enlightened
people with disabilities? No, they see us as THREATS and would have
preferred we never existed.
Have they ever given us account of how
they use the money FG disburse yearly to them for our cause? Now they
dared to publish a disclaimer in the national dailies against Chief Eric
Ufom, the only renowned activist our disability community ever had
whose egalitarian effort is about to liberate us. We are ANGRY! We are
saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Please join us make the calls. Read this as
posted on JONAPWD listserv:
CALL TO TAKE REAL ACTIONS TODAY
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but
there must never be a time when we fail to protest." -- Elie Wiesel
Today, Please Join Others and Make your voices heard very clear and loud on
with a Massive
CALL BLITZ, E-mails and Text Messages
9.00AM -3.00PM Each Day!
To: Dr. Bamanga Tukur, National Chairman, PDP
Phone Numbers: 09-7822751, 09-9503029
I'm Still searching for his mobile numbers for our deaf brothers and sisters
PDP E-Mail addresses: info@peoplesdemocraticparty.org, & news@pdppublicity.com
“Our Destiny is in our Hands,” Fredrick Douglas
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear,” Greg Kincaid
MESSAGE
I’m a Nigerian with Disabilities, who is one of more than 25.5 million
long-neglected or ignored and abused other brothers and sisters
Nigerians with Disabilities.
I thank the PDP for signing and ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
We also Thank H.E. Ambassador Prof. Joy Ogwu, Permanent Representative
and our Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations for their
direct involvements, which made Nigeria's signing and ratification of
this Human Rights Treaty of the 21st Century, by Nigeria a Reality.
I
am humbly and respectfully calling to urge you and the PDP to please
Sir, finish up this good job that you started for more than 25.5 million
of us, Nigerian with Disabilities.
This bill is for every Nigerian
family, including your family because every Nigeria family have one or
more people with disabilities in their families.
This bill is for
every Nigerian when they age because as you age, you start to become one
of us, 25.5 Million Nigerians with Disabilities.
This Bill is for our wounded Nigerians Military men and women and those retired ones.
This bill is for every retired Nigerian civil savant, who are now suffering from one kind of disability to the order.
This bill is also for you because you don't pray to die early. You want
to age and as you age you will definitely become one of us.
Therefore, September 23, 2013, the UN High-level Meeting on disability
and development, will take place. I humbly and respectfully urge you to
please advise President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the Nigerians with
Disability bill with a Commission on or before this High Level Meeting
Our HUGE population of more than 25.5 Million, if added to extra
populations of our family members, healthcare providers, friends and
allies, it made us a very strong political constituency of consequences
that can change the outcome of the 2915 Nigerian Presidential Elections.
Please Let Our 25.5 Million People Go.
Give us our Own Ministry or COMMISSION
Remove us From the Ministry of Women Affairs because we don’t belong there.
Did you know that the Ministry of Women Affairs is the ONLY Nigerian
Ministry or Group or people who oppose Nigeria signing of the Bill with a
Commission?
Did you know that Ministry of women Affairs and Social
Development Conducted a Secret Census and drastically reduced our
population to 2.3 million?
Did you know that the Ministry of Women
Affairs and social Development gave more than 25.5 Million Nigerians
with Disabilities ONLY the sum of five hundred thousand Naira, which is
less than $4,000 dollars for our annual Convention/Election, feeding,
Housing, Convention venue rental, transportations, logistics and many
other needs for the Convention?
Is 500, 000 Naira which is less than $4,000.00 the Annual Budget for more than 25.5 Million people”
Please feel free to remove or add your own messages.
Please act quickly and do your part to make this a WIN for 25.5 Million
Nigerian disability community. Let's not look back and think of what we
should have done but what we DID do!
Throughout the rest of your
life, you will always continue to thank God for giving you the mind to
join this Call for REAL ACTIONS.
At this point only an ACTION by you
in your will get us a positive REACTION in the PDP Headquarters. Make
your support known with repeated MASSIVE Phone Calls because doing
nothing will not get us anything.
THIS WOULD BE ONE OF OUR MANY
OTHER NATIONAL CALL DAYS DEMANDING FROM THE PDP AND OTHERS FOR THE
NIGERIANS WITH DISABILITY RIGHTS BILL WITH A COMMISSION TO BE SIGNED BY
PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN NOW OR NEVER
Let's Unite and Make it Happen!
This is it. We have had enough of more than a decade Continued False
Promises about Nigeria doing the right thing by signing the Nigerians
with Disability Bill with an essential implementation COMMISSION. We
MUST be Freed from the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.
This is the right time to tell the PDP how we feel about all those
false promises which started since the days of President Obasanjo to the
Present day. We must not wait for the last minute to unit and start
taking REAL POSITIVE ACTIONS for our Freedom.
"ANGER IS THE ROOT OF ALL ADVOCACY EFFORTS," By Wade Blank
Anger - a video about ADAPT, YouTube version [cc].
http://www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/atlanta09/anger/anger1.swf
The UN High-level Meeting on disability and development, will take
place on 23 September 2013, and We want President Goodluck Jonathan to
tell the World The Truth on that Day, while addressing the World. We
want him to actually sign the Nigerians with Disability Rights Bill with
a Commission and tell the World that he finally did it for more than
25.5 Million of us, Long-Neglected or Ignored and Endemically abused
Nigerians with Disabilities.
On September 3-4, 2013, The above
PDP Phone lines belongs to us, more than 25.5 million Nigerians with
Disabilities. Take over those phones for those two days. When you call
and the lines are busy, please note that one of us is on the line, keep
on calling until it is your turn to tell Dr. Barmanga Tukur how you
feel. If you did not get him directly, tell the person who answered that
phones everything that you intended telling Dr. Bamanga Tukur and ask
him/she to take your message to Dr. Tukur.
Please Fellow
Nigerians, forward this Call to Action to others. Text it to those that
are not on this Village Square. Ask you friends and family members to
join us in making this massive phone calls. As our retired civil servant
and others to join this massive phone calls. In fact request from
anybody that you know or come across to join. The more phone call that
Dr. Bamanga Tukur and PDP received the more successful we will become.
"As a class, you and I and our friends who comprise the elite are
incredibly blind. We refuse to see what we do not want to see. That is
why we have not brought about the changes which our society must undergo
or be written off. We have no option really; if we do not move, we
shall be moved. The masses whose name we take in vain are not amused;
they do not enjoy their punishment and poverty." -- Chinua Achebe in the
"The Trouble with Nigeria"
PLEASE BEGIN FORWARDING, TEXTING AND E-MAILING TO EVERY BODY YOU KNOW AND ASKE THEM TO JOIN THIS MASSIVE PHONE CALLS
Thanks for joining others in making those massive phone calls and may God/Allah bless you.
Chief Eric Ndubueze Ufom, President,
Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities of Nigeria in the Diaspora, USA
Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities International, Inc
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