… Canvass For Peace, Unity
BY: NSAN NDOMA-NEJI, Calabar
Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), yesterday inaugurated a caretaker and ELECO committees ahead of its forthcoming February 25, 2024 election, expected to provide opportunity for her members to choose who pilots the body’s affairs in Cross River state.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the two committees during the group’s extra ordinary congress ahead of the election, on Wednesday in Càlabar, Cross River state Police Commissioner, Gyagon Augustine Grimah, charged members of the association not to allow their personal interests tear the body apart.
“I am not a registered member of your association, outside God, governent is our father.
I would always be here for you people as far as security is concerned. Make sure you conduct yourselves in a peaceful manner, according to the existing laws of the land”, the commissioner maintained.
In his speech, delivered during the extra ordinary congress, with a theme; “Nothing for us without Us, Chairman of the 5-member Caretaker committee of JONAPWD, Cross River state chapter, Prof. Jacob Agba, sued for peace and unity of members in order to move the association forward.
Agba, who spoke on the topic, Actualizing Peace and Unity in JONAPWD, shortly after affirmation of the caretaker and ELECO Committee by members, stated that with peace and unity, stakeholders can partner the state government to attract several goodies for members, particularly those without jobs.
In his remarks, Convener and Pioneers of Disability Civil Rights Movement and Policy Change in Nigeria, Dr. Job Napoleon Agbor, expressed happiness over the presence of the state Commissioner of Police, who came in person to supervise activities of JONAPWD in Cross River state.
He solicited for sustenance of peace which he said can attract growth and provide opportunity for the association stakeholders to lift JONAPWD to an enviable height.
According to him, “I plead with everyone to conduct he or herself in a peaceful manner for the good of the association.
I charged the caretaker and 5-man ELECO committees to work within the confines of the association’s constitution which is in line with existing laws of the land.”
