Persons with disabilities in Yenagoa on Saturday took to the streets in anger over what they described as "hijacking and diversion" of MDGS largesse by Nigeria's first lady, Patience Jonathan and her political cronies.
The protesters who barricaded the road with their bodies by lining the road, blocked the very busy Mbiama-Yenagoa road to register their annoyance on the non-inclusion in the "empowerment program" that was flagged-off by the President's wife on Thursday, an empowerment program that quickly turned into a rallt that caused traffic gridlock that caused untold hardship to road users.
Persons with disabilities protest in Yenegoa
Chairman of the "Persons With Disabilities", Isaac Stephen, said the politicians and security personnel have hijacked the distribution of the materials to themselves.
"They are play politics with us. They don't have anything to give us and that they will only consider us after they finish with the distribution of government largesse. We will not leave here until they attend to us because they have been deceiving us since Thursday asking that we "come today, come tomorrow ".
"When we came initially they tried to molest us, but we protested that we would rather die with them. This is the situation we are faced with, a lot of negligence to us. Imagine how they treat us, some of us are athletes who have won medals for this state but rather they relegate us to the background ".
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