Honour promises to PWD's-Tetteh

The Executive Director of the Centre for Employment of Person's with Disabilities (CEPD), Mr Alexander Tetteh has called on the new NDC administration to honour the promises it has made to Persons with Disabilities (PWD's) in its manifesto.
He said although the NPP government did its bit to provide them with the needed support, they were looking forward to the NDC government to deliver its promises.
"We have high expectations of the new government and we hope they would continue the good works of the Kufuor administration,"he pointed out in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra today.
" We ask that as stipulated in the NDC manifesto that the provision of Persons With Disability Act, 2006 and Act 715 be implemented as well as the national life of PWD's would be fully integrated as stated", he added.
According to him, the Kufuor administration established the disabled Act and also initiated measures to implement the 2% district common fund for the PWD's in some selected districts to ensure better conditions of livelihood for PWD's thus, he hoped the new government would continue with the all programmes established by the NPP administration.
"The social protection programme under which we have the Livelihood Empowerment Advocacy Programme (LEAP) was introduced by the NPP government and it is yet to reach the PWD's," he noted.
He asked that the premium for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for the PWD's would be free as in the case of pregnant women.
"We expect the NDC government to tap the potentials in disabled persons for appointments into higher positions such as chief executives in the district assemblies, and top political appointments among others, so that we the disabled also benefit from the all inclusion government" he stated.
Mr Tetteh called for the employment of qualified PWD's in private organisations, adding that " individual organisations seeking to recruit employers should consider PWD's since most of them were qualified enough to hold positions in these organisations".
The CEPD which was established in 2007 seeks to facilitate the employment of PWD's and assist companies to manage PWD's in their work places.