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President Tinubu Signs African Union Protocol To Guarantee Rights Of Persons With Disabilities

by Sejoro Ekundayo

President Bola Tinubu has signed the Instrument of Ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa.

The Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday evening,

“I, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, do hereby formally declare that the Federal Republic of Nigeria accepts the aforementioned Protocol and undertakes to faithfully perform and carry out the stipulations therein contained,” the statement quoted the President as saying.

“In witness whereof, I, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, have set my hand and Seal of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on this Instrument of Ratification at Abuja on this 19th day of October in the year Two Thousand and Twenty-Three.”

The African Disability Protocol was adopted by the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 29, 2018, to address forms of discrimination affecting people with disabilities living in African countries.

It is an additional protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (1981) to set standards and promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by persons with disability.

For the protocol to come into force, at least 15 member States must sign and ratify it. So far Angola, Burundi, Kenya, Mali and Rwanda have ratified, and several others are nearly there.

1 comment

Huzaifa Ahmad October 20, 2023 - 11:09 am

Thank you Mr president
We wish you long life and prosperity sir

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