President of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations(GFD), Mawunyo Yakor-Dagbah, has voiced out ill treatments and challenges the albinos, stammerers and other disabled face as they go about their daily activities.
In a conversation with Paul Anomah-Kordieh on eTV Ghana’s Live Chat with Paul, she reiterated that in Ghana, there are communities that banish people with albinism and some that do not allow albinos into their chief’s palace.
‘’I was part of a group who went to Akwamufie wanting to have a conversation with the traditional leaders and we were not allowed in so currently, the Association of Persons with Disability is doing a project on the banishment of persons with albinism in some three communities in Ghana’’, she disclosed.
The GFD President furthered on some problems stammerers face, saying that they go through all the stigmatization and they struggle a lot because their inability to speak like regular people causes people to inferiorize them.
‘’She instanced, ‘’There was a time that one member of parliament passed a derogatory remark at stammerers by saying that Hon. Omane Boamah doesn’t fit for the job of Communications Minister because he’s a stammerer. There was also a comment that Dr Daanaa calls the fall of the NDC because he is visually impaired ’’.
Madam Yakor-Dagbah mentioned that these, among many others are some negative perceptions people have about disabled persons and this makes them quite uncomfortable in society.
However, being the President of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organization and being a victim, Mawuko Yakor-Dagbah is doing a good job setting up initiatives and undertaking projects aimed at controlling the stigmatization on persons with disability.
By:Maureen Dedei Quaye