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Vice Chancellor of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, says the institution has opened a department for Special Education where the blind and the deaf and dumb could further their education.
He stated this at St. Paul Catholic Church, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, while commending members of Nigeria Physically Challenged People’s Assembly (NPCPA) for choosing him as one of their national patrons.
According to him, the department was established for this set of persons to improve their lives and the institution had recently offered admission to one person in wheelchair.
He further said that the two engaged sign language interpreters were already training other persons while the engineers had been directed to make the department easily accessible for the people in wheelchairs.
“JAMB can be written with Braille and EBSU is making arrangements for more Braille machines, this is why I am advising some of them with O’ Level results to strive for more education or think about how they can make it on their own before requesting for support from other people,” he said.
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The VC also said that the people should not feel rejected as none on earth was immune to disability, promising to always support them.
President of NPCPA, Mr. Joseph Enyi, said that the union was formed to accommodate other disabled persons, who were not doing anything meaningful and appealed for the establishment of skill acquisition centres for their members.
“If my members can be trained in shoemaking, sewing, computer and other skills, the act of indolence will no longer be found among us.
“With the skills, in collaboration with empowerment, my people will be taken out of the streets and made to be useful to the society,” he said.
He commended the VC for his vision for people living with disability in EBSU and thanked him for the successes recorded so far in the institution.
