By KEHINDE AKINPELU, Ilorin

A total of 1,600 persons living with disability (PLWD) in 16 local government areas of Kwara state will benefit from the three-month federal government’s special public works programme.

Speaking with journalists after an interactive meeting with leaders of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disability in Ilorin yesterday, the state committee chairman of the programme, Oluwasegun Oyewo, said that the 1,600 population of the PLWD is 10 per cent of a total 16,000 beneficiaries of the programme, with 1,000 beneficiaries each in every local government area of the state.

Oyewo, who said that beneficiaries should be of 18 and 50 years of age, added that literates should also form 20 per cent of the beneficiaries who shall be record programmers while 30 percent of the recruits would be women.

He also said that beneficiaries do not necessarily have to be indigenes of the state, but resident in the state.