A Note on our Disabled Community

Ghana's Disabled Community is clearly not impressed with the people in charge of the National Council on People with Disability (NCPD). See Monday's edition of The Mail and other previously published stories/editorial comments on the same subject.

The threat by members of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) to take to the streets, if the NCPD continues with its current modus operandi, is a serious indictment on the country, which would come out as a country playing only lip service to disability rights.

This is not the first time that the GFD is having problems with the NCPD. If the axiom that there is no smoke without fire is anything to go by, then, the appointing authority of the Council would have to look at the relationship between the NCPD and GFD and try to get things into the appropriate perspective.

As it is, major cracks have already appeared in the relations between these two organizations, the upshot of which can only harm eventually the handicapped persons within society.

Let us divest politics from the welfare of our disabled community as we strive to build a just and humane society.

The NCPD must not see itself as a political organization, the appointees of which have been put there as political overlords, but as a facilitator to help champion the interest of the disabled. It is not a power centre, but a service centre�