Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Federal Government is proud of its accomplishments especially in the Social Investment Programme, an entitlement of the citizens, including Persons Living With Disabilities (PWD), regardless of which administration or political party is in power.
The Vice President also said that government must strive to build national cohesion by supporting the implementation of initiatives that would improve relationships among ethnicities and religions in the country.
Osinbajo said this when a delegations from the FCT People Living With Disabilities Community and the “Reading Against Intolerance Initiative , a national campaign aimed at promoting unity and tolerance among primary school children in Nigeria visited him at the presidential villa Abuja.
The Vice President noted that the Social Investment Programme is one of the biggest in Africa provided for young people who are unemployed.
He expressed hope that successive governments would build on the template already established by the present administration.
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The PWD Community in the FCT with about 5,000 persons currently reside at Karmajiji, Abuja. They were resettled there over 25 years ago but the parcel of land is no longer adequate to accommodate the community. A request for assistance from the Vice President was sought in 2018 following which the Office worked with FCT authorities and got a larger parcel of land allocated to the community.
The Vice President used the occasion to present certificate of occupancy to community.
Professor Osinbajo In another meeting held earlier with promoters of the ‘Reading Against Intolerance Initiative’, emphasized the need to keep supporting programmes that would imbibe the culture of tolerance among young Nigerians in schools.
(Editor : Ena Agbanoma)
