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World White Cane Day: group of the blind demands scholarship, Secretariat from Edo Government

By Wawa Reporters -

October 16, 2020

The Chairman of the group,Mr Nosa Osemwta reading his prepared speech in brail at the NUJ Press Centre in Benin, with him are other members.

By Joseph Osazuwa
The Nigerian Association of the Blind,Edo State on Thursday pleaded with the Edo State Governor,Mr Goodwin Obaseki to give blind students in Edo State scholarship to enable them realize their full potentials.
The group, led by their Chairman, Mr Nosa Osemwta during a visit to the Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Center in Benin City,the Edo State, Capital in commemoration of the 2020 Edition of the World White Cane Day, said the most valuable thing any man can acquire in life is education.
He therefore called on the governor,Mr Godwin Obaseki to capture all blind students in Edo State in it’s bursary scheme. He also said blind people in Edo State want the governor to subsidize the White Cane in the state.
At the same time, he emphasized that the group also needs a Secretariat that will ease out the challenges of the Union’s administration.
According to him. “We will like to say at this juncture, that the best thing that can happen to any man, including the blind is education. Therefore,we plead with the blind,who
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are still in school to take their education seriously.
“We appeal to his Excellency,Governor Goodwin Obaseki to make education for the blind absolutely free, including tuition and boarding fees, as it is obtainable in some neighbouring states. We beseech the state government to give us a building to use as a Secretariat of the association from where our official work can be done. We appeal to the state government to make the school of blind at Ivbiore,Benin City a boarding school to enable blind pupils from other Local Government Area of Edo State to have a good basic education.”
Responding, the Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, Comrade Titus Akhigbe on behalf of the Chairman, Sir Roland Osakue , advised the group to formally take their request to the governor of Edo State,Mr Godwin Obaseki. He also assured the group that Journalists in Edo will do everything to support their course.
The White Safety Cane is a guiding stick used by the blind world over and is celebrated 15th October every year, it was celebrated the first time in Nigeria in 2005.