Oliver Scicluna, chairman of the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability, is expected to be co-opted to parliament, filling the seat vacated by the surprise resignation of newly re-elected MP Gavin Gulia on Wednesday.
Sources told
Times of Malta that Scicluna had been hand-picked by Prime Minister Robert Abela for the post, beating other potential candidates such as Żebbuġ mayor Malcolm Galea.
It will be Scicluna’s first foray into party politics, after several years of work within the disability sector.
Scicluna is a pioneer within that field, having founded a number of disability rights NGOs and then advising the government on its national disability policy.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to play its roles adequately to enable the government to realise its objective of lifting 100 million citizens out of poverty.
The president gave the charge on Thursday at the State House, Abuja, when he received members of the newly established Governing Council of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities.
He said: “I am enjoining you as a team of the commission to realise that your work forms a critical aspect in achieving the objective of our administration to removing 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.
“I am, therefore, looking forward to commissioning projects and programmes of high impact to the disabled community in line with this vision.