Disabled organization lauds passage of disability law

Hohoe, April 12, GNA- Mr Stephen Dentsui, Vice-Chairman of the Volta Regional branch of the Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD) on Wednesday said the passage of the disability law has rekindled the aspiration
of the physically challenged in the society.
He said what was remaining was public awareness creation strategies to bring the law to the next level.
Mr Dentsui, who was speaking in an interview with the GNA said the law had given equal opportunities to both able and disabled people and addressed all negative stereotypes for self-actualization.
He said, by the restoration of their dignity, the disabled person will no longer be seen, as an outcast stressing, "it was a crime to confine us indoors and sometimes exterminate or kill us".
The Vice-Chairman said the law had ushered them into the mainstream of the development processes and "never to become a shame or burden to our parents and families".
Mr Dentsui therefore advised the physically challenged to guard the opportunity given them by the government and not to continue begging for alms
on the streets, saying, disability was not inability.
He called on civil society groups, churches, other governmental and non-governmental organizations to whip up public enthusiasm in the law to change attitudes and perceptions.

12 April 07