Bashiru Dauda, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on disabilities matters, has decried the inadequate funding of the National Senior Citizens Centre.

Mr Dauda said the development hindered the agency from carrying out its responsibilities.

He said this in Abuja on Thursday at an event organised to celebrate Nigeria’s older persons and their important role in society.

He said that part of the responsibility of NSCC was to take care of the country’s senior citizens.

The event was organised by the NSCC and House of Representatives Committee on Disabilities to recognise people who helped remove the barriers before older persons.

The event was part of the activities put together to celebrate the 2024 Older Persons Day, which is celebrated annually on October 1.

The chairman said that the older person’s bill before the House had passed through the first reading, adding that it spells out all privileges, welfare, and other things important to older persons.

“The bill spells out issues on discrimination of the older person’s, security of their income, old age benefit and dementia issue which sometimes the aged pass through,” he said.

Similarly, Salmat-Ibrahim Anas, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on health, said many older persons face disability challenges.

Mr Anas said Mr Tinubu was not relenting on caring for people with disabilities, adding that the older people were it. He urged the NSCC goodwill ambassadors unveiled at the venue after their inauguration on October 2 to live up to their responsibilities.

(NAN)