Phsycially challenged demonstrates over neglect

Some physically challenged persons on Wednesday took to the streets of Nkawie in the Ashanti Region to protest against what they described as insensitivity of successive governments to address their plights.

The charged protestors could not come to terms why successive governments kept on deceiving them.
“We believed that the time had dawned for us to go out and register protests to whole country,” one of the disabled protestors charged in the crowd.

Amidst chanting of slogans and war songs, the protestors numbering about fifty later took their case to the Nkawie District Assembly where they presented a petition to be forwarded to the office of the President in Accra.
In a charged atmosphere, some of them wielded placards with inscriptions which read: “We also deceive better services,”
“What is good for the goose is also good for the gander” Politicians are liars, we must not trust them” among others.

According to the disabled protestors, it appears governments have taken them for granted and were only needed them only in times of elections.

Many of the protestors buttressed this by indicating that despite several pleas sent by their executives to successive governments, so far nothing has been done about their situation.

They stressed that all that governments were interested is to politically manipulate them for votes, after which they leave them to their fate.

Kwame Nyarko, secretary of the disabled group in the district in an interview with reporters shortly after the demonstration maintained that it is about that they used force for politicians to fulfill their promise since attempts to persuade them have failed.

“After this demonstration, the national executives of the disabled association would to discuss the next line of action if government did not heed to our call,” stated Mr Nyarko, adding that the association has no time to wait as far as fighting for a fair share in the distribution of national cake was concerned.

He, therefore, seized the opportunity to call on president to, as a matter of urgency, impress upon Parliament to pass the national disability act which has been sitting in the August for some years now.