 and away from security martyrs. An Abuja-based research institute, Africa Pollan Institute, has advocated accurate data of persons living with disabilities in the country. The executive director of the institute, Professor Bel Ihwa says if this is done, it will improve their living conditions and better their lives. The report is presented from our studio. It is a one-day mall to stake all those workshops by the Nigerian Disability Research Project in Abuja. The project is born out of the need to have Nigerian-owned data on people with disabilities and the project is aimed at gathering evidence-based, disaggregated data that will create useful data that can be quoted for many years to come. The group advises states that are yet to domesticate the disability act to do so and ensure speedy implementation of the act. Data is life and because data is life, I think one of the challenges that have been found so far that has not allowed the inclusion of people with disability is the fact that there has been little data from the country on people with disability. So with the support of Ford Foundation, Africa Polling Institute was asked to midwife the process of generating national data. In a remarks, the National President, Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities, Ekaite Umu, says the outcome of the research would help people with disabilities have their constructive engagements with the government. For a very long time in the Nigerian community, we've been struggling with data. This is the very first time that we're going to have this kind of indigenous research and we are actually looking forward to it. We believe that the outcome of this research will help us to have some kind of constructive engagement. Chief Executive Officer, the Albino Foundation, Jake Ekpele, commanded the project. He says the outcome will be excellent and beneficial to the community of PWDs. We are hopeful and trust that the outcome of this project will be excellent and beneficial to the community. This is one of those projects that reached out to the right people, the best and the brightest within the community. And like we have received as a promise and I trust he keeps his word. The call for all inclusiveness cannot be overemphasized and such a project as this is only a pointer in the right direction.