Blind students and Lagos residents on Monday staged a protest over the closure of the Nigeria FARMCRAFT Centre for the Blind at Airport Road, Ikeja, for over a year now. The demonstrators called for the immediate reopening of the school and urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene. In a video posted on X, many blind protesters were seen holding banners with quotes demanding the reopening of the school. The protesters began chanting, “We no go gree!”
“We want the President of Nigeria to meet our welfare. We want them to open our school. The school has been closed since last year. Come and open the school. That is the only federal school in Nigeria for the blind,” one of the protesters cried.
A number of the protesters also held a banner for the Inner Eye Foundation/The Blind Community. It appealed to the office of the President, the Senate President, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to reopen the FARMCRAFT Centre for the blind and look into the welfare of People With Disabilities (PWDs). Nigeria Farmcraft Centre for the Blind (NFCB) was established in 1957 by humanitarians Sir John and Lady Wilson. The school became a federal institution after Nigeria’s independence.
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