Tag Archives: DISABILITY

Persons with disability sleep at Roads Ministry to demand employment after two years of toll abolition

  Two years ago, they all lost their jobs when the Finance Minister announced the abolition of road tolls. The government promised to reassign all of them but many of them remain unemployed. Some persons with disabilities who were toll booth workers pass the night at the roads ministry on …

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My Wife My Pain: She Abandoned Me With My Disability And Our 2 Kids When we Needed Her Most

Jean Paul spoke of how his beloved wife, despite his disability, left him and their two kids at a time when they needed her most to take care of them and their home.He explained that although he was born without any disability, he became disabled at the age of seven …

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Former Sassa officials jailed for disability grant fraud

The Giyani Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Limpopo sentenced two former South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials on Tuesday to an effective five years in prison for disability grant fraud. Solani Agnes Baloyi, 56, and Jacob Manamela, 64, committed the fraud in January 2015 while working at the Sassa …

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Police stops disability group’s intended march

The Accra Regional Police Command has secured a restraining order prohibiting members of the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) from embarking on a planned demonstration scheduled for Thursday, 18 February 2021. The Accra High Court, under Justice Elfreda Amy Dankyi, prohibited members of the group from embarking on the …

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