Paper delivered by REV. JONATHAN ADEGOKE ADEJUNMOBI, Chief Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, The Polytechnic, Ibadan on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 to mark the Children's Day celebration organised by the Nigerian National Association of Persons with Disability at Onila Centre, Cheshire Home, Polytechnic Road, Ibadan at 1.00 p.m.
IT gives me a great honour and a very rare privilege to be invited to this epoch making occasion where our disabled citizenry with acute mental and intellectual capability has gathered themselves to mark and create a positive impact in Nigeria's lazy history of not caring for persons with disability. To be given the grace to chair this occasion, it gives me the opportunity and challenge to speak out the minds of people with disability especially not only as a friend of the disabled but also as one who is deeply involved in the struggle to educate Nigeria's unenlightened citizenry that disability is not inability but an unusual spice of life introduced by Divine architecture for people to glorify God-the-Creator - when the unusual, uncanny and incredible achievement of intellectuals who even though disabled are spotlighted and show-cased for people to savour and to appreciate and to give a thunderous waaoh for these very special rare breed achievers particularly for their very extra-ordinary performances and landmark accomplishment.
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