At the event several goodies were given out to rally attendants with the promise that it came from the MDG program, however, some of the foodstuffs packaged with President Jonathan's campaign bags had expired and rotten.
Persons with disabilities in Yenagoa on Saturday took to the streets in anger over what they described as "hijacking and diversion" of MDGS largesse by Nigeria's first lady, Patience Jonathan and her political cronies.
The protesters who barricaded the road with their bodies by lining the road, blocked the very busy Mbiama-Yenagoa road to register their annoyance on the non-inclusion in the "empowerment program" that was flagged-off by the President's wife on Thursday, an empowerment program that quickly turned into a rallt that caused traffic gridlock that caused untold hardship to road users.
Chairman of the "Persons With Disabilities", Isaac Stephen, said the politicians and security personnel have hijacked the distribution of the materials to themselves.
"They are play politics with us. They don't have anything to give us and that they will only consider us after they finish with the distribution of government largesse. We will not leave here until they attend to us because they have been deceiving us since Thursday asking that we "come today, come tomorrow ".
"When we came initially they tried to molest us, but we protested that we would rather die with them. This is the situation we are faced with, a lot of negligence to us. Imagine how they treat us, some of us are athletes who have won medals for this state but rather they relegate us to the background ".
At the Samson Siasia stadium main entrance politicians could be seen with trucks to carry away the items reportedly meant for the poor and the underprivileged. A reason they claimed the Millenium Goals Development (MDG) aims at eradicating poverty and hunger in developing the world.
Lamenting their harrowing experience since Thursday of being sent back and forth, secretary of the persons with disabilities Patrick Dede, said it appeared they were never considered in the programme in the first instance.
"From the way I look at the development, it is not healthy the way we are being treated. And from the look of thing we do not consider in the program fair and just considering our status in the society."
It would be recalled that the Wife of the President at flag-off of the MDG rally had told the multitude of politicians and indigenes of the state including National Assembly members from Bayelsa and the National Coordinator of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria(TAN), Ifeanyi Uba, that there was no alternative to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan.
At the event several goodies were given out to rally attendants with the promise that it came from the MDG program, however, some of the foodstuffs packaged with President Jonathan's campaign bags had expired and rotten.
