About 788 almajiris from Nasarawa State have been repatriated to their various homes.
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Mr Abdullahi Sule, while speaking with journalists on the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, said, “We have been campaigning against it and now this COVID-19 has brought even a higher risks that these children roaming the streets could come across someone who is already an infected persons and by the time he winds down his window and give them what they call the support, at the end of the day he may infect these innocent children.”
The state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Halima Jabiru, gave the breakdown of those repatriated.
“We are taking them to five states. We have Jigawa, 244; Kaduna 199; Plateau 51; Gombe 42; and Taraba, 38,” she stated.
