Negative Motive Undermined the Progress of the Challenged in Nigeria

It is good to see people who devote their time and money to render services to people with disabilities. The people with disabilities should be seen as those who need to be encouraged and their issues should be handled with sincerity and purpose. Biasness, selfishness and greediness should not be the original motive of those who indulge in the services of the physically challenged people.
The activities of the NGOs, governmental agencies and individuals including physically challenged people towards providing services for people with disabilities in Nigeria have been commendable but there is one ugly thing about their activities that need to be addressed properly in order to help better the situation of these segment of people who they claim that they are serving. Several laudable and mind-blowing programmes have been organized across the country by these NGOs and governmental agencies but a good number of the participants are found back in street begging for alms, many wasting in their families waiting for the promises made by the agencies that may not come or inefficient because it is only a peanut.
Some programmes are only a gathering of people with disabilities by the NGOs to portray to the public that they are providing services for them only to discard them after the program. The painful part of it is that the innocent individuals who donate their money for so mentioned services do not know that they are only on business no intention whatsoever to provide services for this segment of people. They prefer using the money to buy expensive cars and houses that is using the unfortunate situation of people with people as shortcut to riches.  They know how to mobilize people with disabilities whenever they initiate these programmes which they (disabled people) will be on their own after program. They will always attend because they are suffering so they need assistance which will not come eventually. What is paramount to these Nigerian based NGOs is getting the video clips and pictures of their activities/programs, post them to sincere NGOs and philanthropists abroad who always respond but will not reach the supposed beneficiaries.
It is no longer news that government have failed woefully in attainment of their goals which were beautifully prepared to entice prospective donors at the onset but it is a shame that they always appear to be objective but the corrupt society we found ourselves made it virtually impossible for them to organized an honest services provision for the people with disabilities. Services to people with disabilities should not be monetized or seen as a way of making a living without actually providing these services to these people fronted in order to raise money from people.
On close watch on some of the recent programmes, the physically challenged Nigerians who participated are found everywhere still going through the same problems which the organizers claimed publicly that arrangement have been perfected to get  them solved. Even the services they are reluctantly providing such as giving of wheelchairs and other mobility aids is commendable but it is only one out of the numerous problems. It is also good to provide means of livelihood for them that is to say that these organizers should not hide away from this responsibility since they have instituted themselves as a means to raise the social status of Nigerians with disabilities. How beautiful does it look to give somebody wheelchair today only to see him tomorrow begging in street with it.  It does actually speak well of the person that provided him with the wheelchair but it is still incomplete because to provide means of livelihood is more importance. I am not saying that the gesture is not good enough just that more effort is still needed to ensure that most Nigerians with disabilities have legitimate work and discrimination is scrapped(i.e. provision of equal opportunity), street begging among persons with disabilities will phase off.        
These services supposed to be mostly rural community based and one on one basis if one actually wants to render services to these set of people. This will afford them the opportunity to affect the lives of this people greatly. It is not really a matter of gathering of a lot of physically challenged people during programmes; it is all about guiding them to actually realize their potentials by putting up drastic means of solving their problems. For instance, involving Social Workers or other related disciplines to find out what they prefer doing, the findings will subsequently serve as a guide to the vocation they will be exposed to.
 Honest and commitment should be the watchwords of these organizers, their initiatives as regards to the programme is not bad and they should not have a negative motive behind the programmes and the organization setup  rather they should channeled and directed their activities towards curbing the discrimination which has being the backbone of the problem facing Nigerians with disabilities. It is obvious that both government and the general pubic going by increase number of NGOs in Nigeria are relying on them to tackle the problems associated to plights of Nigerians with disabilities. This notion was confirm by the way people and government respond or collaborate with them whenever they having programmes.
 This is a clear indication that the duty has been shouldered on them and the way some of them are going, they have failed in their duties because of greediness; the fate of Nigerians with disabilities is in their hands because they understand what they are going through and ways in which these problems can be solved. There is an agitation to find a way of reducing street begging among people with disabilities in Nigeria and since the NGOs has failed, and Nigerians with disabilities who head several organizations of the people with disabilities should stop being self centred and work in unity with other persons with disabilities, the desire result will be achieved in no time. I think that the public and government should cease to rely so much on the NGOs, monitor their activities or investigate to find those who are committed to serve. It will be more fruitful to support those NGOs/pressure groups formed by Nigerians with disabilities to handle their matters because there is a saying that he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches him. 
It is bad to see people who claim that they give mobility aids free; selling the same mobility aids at a high price to the same people they intended to assist, those who claim that they provide soft loans for persons with disabilities only keep them in their centres for so long because they are only objects of receiving donations from visitors at the centres, some exploit persons with disabilities who are graduate by employing them to work at their centres without placing them on salary with  the claim that they are helping them out in accommodation and feeding while they perform duties that need heavy payment.
I may suggest that supporting organizations of people with disabilities, monitor their activities by ensuring that they used the fund judiciously could be the way forward because if embezzlement reduces, lives of many should be torched...Article was written by Unini Emeka