December 24, (THEWILL) – Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has appointed Adenike Oyetunde-Lawal as new General Manager of the Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs (LASODA), with effect from December 19, 2023.
The appointment is in recognition of Oteunde-Lawal’s impressive track record as a reputable lawyer, highly qualified alternate dispute resolution, human resource personnel, and an emotional intelligence coach.
Before her appointment, Oyetunde-Lawal was the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Persons With Disabilities (Disability and Inclusion). Her passion-driven conversations around the plight of disability in Nigeria led her to establish the Amputees United Initiative, a social group specifically for amputees.
She also uses advocacy to push for and encourage the inclusion of persons with disability in Nigeria.
Having suffered from bone cancer as a young woman, Oyetunde-Lawal realised that the only way she could have respite, having tried everything, was to have her leg amputated when she was 20 years old. She runs Amputees United and is also an author with a self-titled published work ‘Adénìké,’ an autobiography.
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