The Centre for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) on Tuesday, 30th July, held Stakeholders’ meetings on the scourge of corruption and the Nigeria Disability Act simultaneously in two states; Kaduna and Akwa-Ibom state.
According to the information posted on their facebook page, the stakeholders’ meetings were aimed at heightening the campaign against corruption by persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Kaduna and Akwa-Ibom state, as well as to campaign for the domestication of the Nigeria Disability Act passed into law by the federal government in January 2019; in both states.
‘The Campaign is being implemented through a UK Aid funded project on Strengthening Citizens Resistance against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C)’, INN gathered.
The advocacy group, ably led by its founder Mr David Anyeale, emphasized on the said facebook page that the campaign was aimed at contributing to a reduction in corruption as a result of changing public attitudes that increasingly discourage corrupt activities among persons with disabilities (PWDs) and Nigerians at large.
INN further learnt that ‘the SCRAP-C project is currently running in 5 states in Nigeria, the states include; Akwa-Ibom, Enugu, Kaduna, Kano and Lagos state’.