The General Manager, LASODA, Dr Babatunde Awelenje, at an end of year news conference in Ikeja, on Thursday said disability should not be used as an avenue for lawlessness, adding that that the office would use advocacy to address the issue in 2018.
Awelenje stated that LASODA would not support the charity model of disability where PLWD were given alms as a form of charity.
He said, “Also parents who have children with physical challenge should not hide them; they should enrol such children in schools so that their future will be bright.”
The LASODA boss said the office would empower some PLWD through skill acquisition programmes in 2018.
He also disclosed the plans to establish coordinating offices of LASODA in the five divisions of the state to reach all PLWD.
Awelenje said LASODA had started the registration of PLWD in the state, adding that about 3,000 physically-challenged people had been captured in the state’s database.
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