Consider The Disabled For Employment-SURE-P

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From Chuks Collins, Awka
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A board member of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Chike Okogwu has appealed to industrialists, manufacturers and other employers of labour in the country to consider special arrangement for physical disability to work in their organizations
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Okogwu who made the passionate plea at Nnewi during an interactive session of the SURE-P officials and industrialists in Anambra state noted that there is urgent need to creat an enabling environment for people with physical challenges to work in institutions by removing most bottle necks that ?hitherto stood in their ways towards fcontributing their own qouta to national development.
The SURE-P chieftain pointed out that a number of the disabled currently begging on the streets can be useful to themselves and the society if such individuals are given room to express themselves and actualize their potentials.
Okogwu a celebrated broadcaster who said he got consigned to wheel chair after sustaining a spinal cord injury in an accident not long ago noted ?that he never allowed his situation to push him into frustration and self pity .
He therefore charged physically challenged individuals to take the bull of being useful by the horn and not allow themselves to be pushed to the background.
?Assistant director SURE-P Graduate Internship Scheme , Chief Aremu Olaniran said the package was meant to reduce graduate unemployment?in the country targeted at engaging ?fifty thousand (50,000)youths, aged between 18 and 40, expected to be empowered annually.
They ?would be engaged by interested firms on the bill of the SURE-P.?Chief Aremu said that a thirty thousand naira monthly stipend would?be given to the beneficiaries at no cost at all to the companies.
A reknowned transporter, Sir GU Okeke in a comment called on?industrialists from the South East not to be afraid of keying into the?scheme because it is something novel for government to pick the bill?of people working in private institutions. He??commended the administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan for
the initiative.
?The convener of the interactive session represented by Colet?Odenigbo praised the efforts of the Local Organising Committee headed?by the duo Chief Ofili Nwosu ?and Prince Samben Nwosu for the quality?attendance which according to him has made the Nnewi meeting the best?so far.
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