Disability, HIV and AIDS Human Rights Activist, Elijah Ngwale, has urged persons living with disabilities in the country to play down rumours alleging that government intends to repatriate all people with disabilities to the villages.
Mr Ngwale said it is not true that the Patriotic Front government (PF) has come up with a secret repatriation program that will see all persons with disabilities taken to the villages as published by some online publications.
In an interview with ZANIS today, Mr Ngwale disclosed that he is always in touch with the Director General of Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities (ZAPD), Felix Silwamba, and that he would not fail to notify him if there were such programmes as being speculated online.
And Mr Ngwale has since called on Dr Silwamba to immediately convene a meeting to discuss various issues affecting persons with disabilities in the country.
Mr Ngwale has also appealed to cooperating partners to continue assisting person living with disabilities with their different various needs.
Two weeks ago ZAPD undertook a tour to check on the impact of floods on persons living with disabilities and how they could be assisted.
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ZWD at it again, proper hatred for us who are now in power. ZWD, UPND and you know who, are bitter and are chocking with envy
Hahahahaha….!!!!
ZWD Imbwa shibosabosa fye!They even bark at their own shadows!!Kachepa publication!!
HH’s nonsense again. What an ignorant man, he is as much use to Zambia as breasts are to a chicken for breast feeding!!!! Useless
hahaha..Mr.Ngwale is paid ..the rest of the disabled will cry foul..watch the space..PF doesnt have a heart..
Why do you people peddle such heartless and insensitive rumours? Do you not have a modicum of decency left in you as humans? Are there no red lines UPND is not prepared to cross? Scaring vulnerable people is not only desperate but also immoral. But then again since when did immorality trouble HH?
ngwale is smelling for a job from katema and DG, he is resorting to politics of stomach!
tHE RUMOUR IS FLSE. bUT THE FACT IS THAT nGWALE IS TIRED OF BEING IN THE OPPOSOTION, HE IS A SHAMELESS JOB SEEKER WHO HAS RESORTED TO POLITICS OF THE STOMACH. HE IS NOT WORTH LISTENING TO. HAS OUTLIVED HIS USEFULNESS , IN FACT HE HSA NEVER BNEEN USEFUL TO ANY ONE , NOT EVEN TO HIMSELF.
U are right that chap must be in village himself but hungry and job seeking without dignity
Why U turn on a very good move that for the first time even opposition leaders congratulated govt. of the move to decongest our cities and remove the burden on able bodied pipo, taking these pipo with disabilities to the village? let alone to zambezi or luangwa river?
I am 72 years old and was born in Luanshya disabled, which village does the government intend to deport me to Mr Ngwale??
Why do you heap such romours on PF Mr Ngwale? Where do you get your information from?
Yes, PF has progressive manifesto on disability but implementer questionable. People are down play the PF administration