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General News of Friday, 24 July 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Almajiri boy, mentally derailed man reunited with family by Oyo govt

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde

The Oyo State Government has successfully reunited an Almajiri boy, Musa Issa, 13, with his Family after years away.

According to s statement by Alhaja Faosat Sanni, the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Inclusion on Friday in Ibadan, a mentally derailed man was also reunited with his family after treatment.

The boy was among other almajiris picked from the streets of Minna in Niger while begging for alms and repatriated to Oyo State.

His 50-year-old father, Mr. Issa Yahaya, a cattle rearer near Okaka in Itesiwaju Local Government Area of Oyo State, was said to have taken his son to Minna about five years ago to learn Qur’an in an Islamic school but did not visit him in the last two years.

Meanwhile the state government also reunited one Yusuf Olapade, aged 38, who was mentally derailed, with his family.

According to Mrs Christiana Abioye, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Inclusion, Olapade was picked on the street and handed over to one of our NGO’s in charge of rehabilitation of the mentally derailed persons.

“Yusuf is now hale, hearty and has fully regained his sanity, after he has received medical treatments and social work intervention as well as other counselling therapy from the professionals in the ministry.

“It is on this note that we are handing him over to his aunty Mrs Comfort Akanni, for bonding and integration,’’ Abioye said.

She further stressed that government was more interested in the good health conditions and welfare of the less privileged so as to make street begging less attractive. (NAN)