Nigeria: Ascend Poised for Active Participation in Politics

6 September 2013
opinion

An Igbo adage says that when birds fly without perching, one will shot without aiming.

Having explored all possible means of mainstreaming persons with disability in Nigeria without success, we had to explore active participation in politics as a means of mainstreaming persons with disability through the formation of Association for Comprehensive Empowerment of Nigerians with disabilities (ASCEND) and it has proved to be the elixir we needed.

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