Benue State
Aug. 1, 2025
The Benue House of Assembly has passed the Persons With Disabilities Rights Commission Establishment Bill, 2025.
The bill was passed during the plenary on Friday in Makurdi.
In a lead debate, the Deputy Speaker, Mrs. Lami Danladi, said that persons with disabilities were deprived of certain basic rights and entitlements because of the absence of a commission.
She said that Nasarawa and Plateau had enacted the law and it was in operation, disclosing that Benue was the only state in the North Central that was yet to pass the law.
The Speaker, Mr Hyacinth Dajoh, called on the Clerk, Mr John Hwande, to read the bill for the third time, which he did.
Dajoh later pronounced that “the bill having been read for the third time is hereby passed.” (NAN)
