CONDOLENCES:_Ambassador Oyedeji Olusegun Abayomi Coalition PWDs organization Leader write on behalf of myself, family, I The Coalition PWDs organization Leader to condolences the family of late Barrister Danlami Bashiru all his friends and the entire Disability Community in Both home and Abroad.

 CONDOLENCES

 

I Ambassador Oyedeji Olusegun Abayomi Coalition PWDs organization Leader write on behalf of myself, family, I The Coalition PWDs organization Leader to condolences the family of late Barrister Danlami Bashiru all his friends and the entire Disability Community in Both home and Abroad. 

With sadness in My hearts and others Disability community painful about our Barrister Danlami Bashiru died on Wednesday June 6th 2023, of Barr. Danlami Umaru Basharu, MON, he was the third Executive Director and founder of Anglo-Nigerian Welfare Association for the Blind, ANWAB – operators of the ANWAB Centre for the Blind in Yaba, Lagos. He died following surgery at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja Nigeria. 

Danlami, as he is fondly called, was the third and a multi-talented blind Nigerian who did all he could to ameliorate the suffering of blind persons, including students, through the transcription of textbooks into Braille, which enabled many more blind students to go to school and become gainfully employed.

He was last December decorated by the Nigerian government with the national honour of Member of the Order of the Niger, MON, and until recently was Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD.

Danlami Basharu attended Pacelli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted Children, Surulere, Lagos; King’s College, Lagos; University of Wales, Aberystwyth (B.A. (Ed./History, Hons.); Durham University Business School, (MBA); Trinity College, Cambridge University (B.A., Law, LL.M and MA); and Nigerian Law School from where he was called to the Bar in October 1987. 

He was with Nigerian Television Authority as Senior Producer from 1984 to 1996 and also as a presenter with Radio Nigeria from 1989 to 1990 before he became the Executive Director of ANWAB which he co-founded with friends in the UK 1996.

Born on 18th June 1959, Danlami was married with children and has been buried this evening at Agege Cemetery in Lagos according to Islamic injunction.

Barrister Danlami Bashiru was amongst the most Peaceful members of the Disability Community.

May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace, (Amen)

Signed 

Ambassador Oyedeji Olusegun Abayomi

Coalition PWDs organization Leader in Nigeria and Former Secretary General Election Committee JONAPWD Oyo State.

Note : 

- Late Prince Adelabu was the First and Pioneer

- Late Mr Phillips was the Second and Pioneer

- Late Barr Danlami Bashiru was third and Pioneer

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