Parliament for Hohoe North on Monday blamed metropolitan, municipal
and district assemblies for their corporate failure to disburse funds
allotted to rehabilitate the physically challenged in the society,
thereby compounding their plight.He said two to five percent of the
District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) has been earmarked towards the
rehabilitation and development of the disabled in the society, which
had always been flouted with impunity.Mr. Hayibor was speaking at the
inauguration and fundraising ceremony of the Hohoe branch of the Ghana
Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD) at Hohoe.It was themed,
"Remove the Social Barriers and Tap the Potentials of the People With
Disabilities" (PWDs).
He said this phenomenon was an aberration of the directive from
government that could be a recipe for legal confrontation.Mr. Hayibor
called for strict compliance of the provisions that enjoined district
assemblies to disburse such resources for the upkeep of PWDs.
Mr. Stephen Dentsui, Vice-Chairman of the Volta Regional GSPD,
appealed to the government to establish a blueprint for the
utilization of funds allocated towards empowering PWDs.Mr. Sitso
Mawuena, the Hohoe District Director of the Department of Social
Welfare, commended the group for their resolve to succeed in spite of
the myriads of challenges.
Mr. Isaac Sesenu, Hohoe District Officer of GSPD, said the passage of
the disability law had placed a lot of responsibility on government
and society at large and called for collaboration with stakeholders to
enable them contribute their quota towards nation building.
4 April 07
