THE National Council for People with Disabilities has challenged Teso South MP Mary Emase to lobby her parliamentary colleagues to support their draft Bill which seeks to improve the welfare of the disabled in the country. NCPWDs senior legal officer Fredrick Omondi who was with the Council's director Phoebe Nyagudi and Teso chairman Alex Ekirapa, said the current Act is too weak to address issues affecting people with disabilities. “The 5 per cent rule on employment opportunities for the disabled cannot be enforced by the Council owing to the loopholes in the Act,” Omondi said. They made the...
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