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Comrade Ibrahim Arome (Kogi State Chairman of Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities) led an advocacy visit to Hon Muhammed Dan-Asebe, the chairman of Lokoja Local Government in which he made a special request for the chairman to appoint persons with disabilities into his cabinet and the chairman made a promise to do so.
On 19th August, 2019, the Chairman kept his promise by appointing a male and female with disabilities as senior special assistant (SSA) to serve in his cabinet and the appointment is with immediate effect. The beneficiaries were Hon. (Mrs) Salamatu Yakubu and Hon. (Malam) Zubeiru. (Qualitative magazine)