The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Disability Matters, Dr. Samuel Ankeli has urged the National Assembly to ensure prompt passage of the National Disability Bill currently pending before it.
Ankeli said the delay in the Bill’s passage accounts for why the establishment of the National Disability Commission was also being delayed.
The Presidential aide spoke in Abuja while on a visit to the Director General (DG) of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) Dr. Garuba Abari.
Ankeli, who noted his office was saddled with the responsibility of assisting the President on all matters relating to the welfare of over 25 million Nigerians living with all form of disability, said his visit was to seek NOA’s collaboration in championing issues affecting citizens with disability.
Abari, while hailing Ankeli for his appointment, assured him of the NOA’s readiness to work with his office to achieve success in his assignment.