Nasarawa State is set to establish three special schools for the physically challenged to alleviate their plights and accord them a better chance at integrating themselves into the society and contribute their quota to the development of the state.

The state deputy governor, Hon. dameshi Barau Luka, who made this known at the annual public lecture organised by the United States embassy in Nigeria to mark Martin Luther King Jr’s anniversary, stated that the three schools to be established include those for the deaf, blind and the crippled.

While calling on the American ambassador, Mr. Terence P. McCulley, who was the guest lecturer at the event for support to empower the physically challenged, Hon. Barau noted that only late last year the state governor, Umaru Tanko Almakura undertook a trip to the United States to seek technical support from interested public partners.

The deputy governor, while pointing out that the honour accorded the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), as the host of this year’s commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day, provided the state “yet another opportunity to explore areas of common interest” added that Nasarawa State government “is very eager to jumpstart our economy for rapid development and for the benefit of the rural populace”.

It would be recalled that only recently the Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-makura, appointed a cripple, Mohammed Apa, to the exalted office of the solicitor general of the state, the first of its kind in the history of the state.