The Nasarawa government has
declared free education for all physically-challenged students in all the
state-owned tertiary institutions.
Rebecca Umaru, provost, College
of Education, Akwanga, disclosed this on Tuesday, when she played host to a
team led by Hamza Awe, senior special assistant to the governor on disability
and social media.
Umaru, who said that government
had directed all heads of the institutions to ensure compliance, added that the
institution’s management had consequently stopped collecting registration fees
from all the physically-challenged students.
“Fees and other charges for all
physically-challenged students have been stopped and we are making refund to
all those who had paid earlier,” the provost said.
She pointed out that the
management of the college had also declared free excursion programmes for the
physically-challenged students to any part of the country to support the
efforts of the state government.
Umaru assured that they would
give priority attention to the physically-challenged students when allocating
hostels accommodation to ease their sufferings.
She, however, appealed to the
state government to assist the college with permanent staffers who would be
scheduled to take care of the special students in the institution.
In her reaction, Awe, the leader
of the team, assured the physically-challenged students of Governor Abdullahi
Sule’s commitment to addressing their challenges and make life more comfortable
for them.
“I want to assure you that the
Sule-led administration is giving us a sense of belonging, hence our reason to
embark on this advocacy visit to all the tertiary institutions in the state,”
she said.
The governor’s aide said that the
visit was aimed at rubbing minds with the physically-challenged students in
order to address their challenges.
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