TARABA State governor, Mr Danbaba Suntai, has said the current administration will not fold its arms to see the disabled suffer in silence any longer.

Suntai, who stated this at the workshop organised by the Ministry of Women Affairs on capacity building in respect of skills acquisition for women with disabilities, in Jalingo, said it was honour for the state to be chosen to host such an important event, which would help people with disabilities to be trained on skills acquisition.

Represented by the State Head of Service, Mr Augustine Bazing, the governor explained that disability was an effect of impairment which caused them malfunction.

He said it had been a major problem in the country.

Earlier, the Minister of Women Affairs, Zainab Maina, said the workshop was indeed significant because it made another milestone in the ministry’s determined effort to address the need for women with disabilities in the country with a view to harnessing great potentials for nation development.

The minister, who was represented by the director for disables of the ministry, Alhassan Tambari, said the ministry being gender sensitive was saddled with the responsibility of developing programmes that projected the social and economic empowerment of women, children and persons with disabilities.

Tambari said women encountered a lot of obstacles and challenges that limited their capability to play active roles in the social economic and political development of the nation.

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