Accessibility to infrastructure and disability rights in Nigeria: an analysis of the potential of the discrimination against persons with disability (prohibition) act 2018 |
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| Authors: | Chibike Amucheazi Chidebe Matthew Nwankwo |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Enugu Campus, Property Law, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria matthew.nwankwo@unn.edu.ng;3. International and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria |
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| Abstract: | A viable way to establish a sense of inclusion for the physically challenged in Nigeria like elsewhere is to provide a sustainable infrastructural plan that integrates the utility concerns of the disabled. Overcoming the difficulties faced by people with disabilities requires interventions to remove environmental and social barriers. This paper examines the right of persons with disability to public vehicular and infrastructural use. It focuses on the recently enacted Discrimination against Persons with Disability (Prohibition) Act, 2018 as well as other international human rights instruments from which Nigeria derives her international obligations. It is observed that the Nigerian society is still unfriendly to the disabled as public infrastructure is constructed without considerations for the disabled. |
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