Olaitan made this disclosure while revealing the outcome of his doctoral research at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan at the weekend.
In the thesis, which was supervised by an Ibadan-based Criminologist, Dr Oludayo Tade, Olaitan found that “negative social constructions by families, spouse and others were influenced by cultural and religious beliefs about disability and led to multiple victimisations with harmful consequences on the life chances of the WWDs”.
“The Lagos State office of Disability Affairs is the major state actor performing regulatory and intervention roles on WWDs victimisation. “In this study, a lady of about 35 years told me how wrong medication by a quack doctor led to her visual impairment. Her father complained and nagged about it. She is now a graduate but she said the parents are mounting pressure on her because she has not got someone to marry her.
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