DISABILITY LAW 10-YEAR MORATORIUM ENDS IN DECEMBER

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The moratorium granted under the disability law for property developers to make their buildings accessible to persons with physical disability will end in December this year. 

With this, it will be mandatory for particularly all state buildings across the country to include facilities that will make such building easily accessible to disabled persons.

The Ashanti Regional Minister, John Alexander Ackon, made this known to some journalists after inspecting the Adugyama Community Day Senior High School in the Ahafo Ano South district. 

Mr. Ackon, a former Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, warned that from January of next year, owners of buildings, whether private or state owned, could be sued in the law courts if they fail to make their properties unfriendly to persons with physical disabilities.

 Mr. Ackon was happy about the progress of work on the Adugyama Community Day SHS which is currently about 90 per cent complete save pavement blocks and some fittings. 

The one major feature of the three-storey school is the provision of a rump to facilitate access the classrooms and other ancillary facilities. 

Already, work is almost complete on the eight-flat teachers’ quarters, a five-bedroom Headmaster’s bungalow, a water storage system and canteen while the rooms meant for the laboratories and libraries are ready for the fitting of the equipment.

The project is being completed ahead of the October deadline to allow for the admission of the first batch of students for the next academic year which starts in September this year.

The Regional Minister expressed the hope that in future, the Community Day Senior High School would be expanded to accept boarders. 

Mr. Ackon commended the contractor for the quality of work done and sense of urgency attached to the project.

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