Implement inclusive education for Children With Disabilities, Abdulrahaman urges stakeholders

By Nneka Nwogwugwu

The publisher of Inclusion Magazine, Hussaini Abdulrahaman, has called on stakeholders in the education sector to implement policies that would enhance inclusive and better education for children with disabilities.

Abdulrahaman made this call while celebrating Children’s Day organised by Inclusion Magazine for children with disabilities in Abuja on Thursday.

Abdulrahaman, said he would use his magazine as a platform against injustice and abuses of human rights on persons with disabilities.

He also urged their parents to draw strength from the fact that the world is getting better for their children in line with global inclusive policy initiatives.

President of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), Ekaite Umoh, revealed in a report that 90 per cent of children with disabilities are out-of-school in Nigeria mostly for poverty, social stigma and lack of inclusive educational policies for them.

Umoh speaking at the event, said that children with disabilities were grossly uneducated in the country, calling on the government to come up with programmes that would train them on skills acquisition with the view to make them useful for the society.