District Chief Executive (DCE) of Ekumfi in the Central region, Ibrahim Kweku Dawson, has asked people from the area to report Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) who beg in and around the district for the assembly to take up the necessary plenary measures against them.

According to him, it is against the law for them to beg because of their condition, adding that the Assembly does not want to encourage that since “disability is not inability.”

He added that it is “disgraceful” to see a disabled person from the district begging on the streets hence the reason why they formed an Association to cater for their needs.

“If you see them begging around here or even if they go elsewhere and you recognise them, report them to us because we don’t see why they have to go begging when they are being catered for by the assembly,” he said.

The DCE said this in an interview with Today in his office at Essarkyir last Wednesday.

Mr. Dawson noted that there was “no point in begging when you are disabled.”

He added; there are a lot of disabled persons who are well to do because they are doing decent jobs.”

“Don’t always challenge yourself to be a disabled, you have the mind and powers to be whoever you wish to be so don’t go to the roadside to beg which is uncalled for. God has given you talents and He knows the reason why He made you like that… so don’t waste those talents,” he advised PWDs.

He disclosed that GH?8,100 out of the Assembly’s Common Fund was disbursed to PWDs with the least beneficiary receiving GH?300.

He, therefore, advised his colleague DCEs not to hesitate to make available the PWDs percentage of the common fund available to them to enable them embark on their activities, adding that “by so doing, they will be free and we will also be free.”

Mr. Dawson hinted that he was liaising with the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Mr. Abeiku Crentsil, to accommodate all PWDs in the area to develop their skills and talents to enable them generate additional income to cater for themselves.