The president termed youths as lazy and the uproar was massive. Everyone seemed to pitch what they do but some people on the streets didn't have a voice being that they just have to survive by begging. They've got no clue what it means to work to earn, be creative with ideas, solve problems and so on.
I beg us to wear our imagination cap for a few seconds. If you had a deep cut on one hand, how easy would it be for you to go about your chores at home? I bet one of the reasons you would go to the office is that you are paid and a cut isn't a good enough reason to be absent from work. I can imagine how impaired and slightly away from the true you, you will feel.
Moving forward, checking through the statistics on google the most percentage of people living on the streets of Nigeria are with disability and the most common thought that comes to the mind of a common Nigerian when they see people with elephantiasis, blind eyes, no legs, hunch back and much more are usually the thoughts of them being cursed. You hear things like "wetin dis wan don go do wey den don throw am curse?" On several occasions, I've heard things like this both from home, in taxis, on the bus, on the streets and
it's so bad that some people use this persons with disabilities for begging business. Cruelty I would say.
This people we call menace to the society, no doubt they live our streets untidy and unsafe but, what action has been taken by the government regarding their plight? Have they tried to empower this people and make them useful to our society? It's not enough taking them off the streets, they need re-orientation, they need to be armed with skills.
Most of them see theirselves as people who don't belong to the society in the first place, they see theirselves as people who are outcasts and deserve nothing but to eat and die when it comes.
I have heard a lot on depression from people and I've been depressed myself in some situations but I ask myself, Ala, do you think you know depression? I think the disabled on the streets are an epitome of depression being that people scorn at them, laugh at them and are not friendly at all to them.
My thought today is simple, you who is priviledged to be a part of this generation that see things from a more enlightened perspective, lets come together to show love to this people.
A simple smile, a loving word, a meal, a bottle of water, a new shirt, a sandal or slippers as it were and so much more will go a long way to make them feel special and loved. We must not wait for the government to love on them.
Treat a disabled with love today, stop discrimination.
I rest my case.
My Thoughts.
©Ala O. Wilcox
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