Governor Nasir
El Rufai of Kaduna State, Wednesday, appointed a Special Assistant on
Persons with Disability. This seems to be in reaction to the threat by
beggars in the state to bring down his government. A statement
signed by Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the
governor, disclosed that El-Rufai has appointed Aliyu Muhammed Salisu
as his Special Assistant on Persons with Disability. Salisu,
who hails from Sabon Gari, Zaria, holds a diploma in Special Education
from the Kaduna Polytechnic and another diploma in Guidance and
Counseling from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He is a
member of the National Association of the Blind and has worked at the
Kaduna State Rehabilitation Centre. He is the chairman of the Braille
Production Centre in Kaduna.
Recalled that beggars in the state
on Monday threatened to bring down El-Rufai government if he fails to
reverse the ban on begging or provide alternative means of income,
stressing that they used proceeds from begging to enthrone him as the
governor of the state.
“We decided to support El Rufai, because
we were tired of the then Governor, (Mukhtar Ramalan Yero) who did not
show any regards to our survival. We worked hard, spent money and prayed
and God heard our prayers and brought down Yero.
“Now, it would appear that we made a mistake. The new governor wants to bring us down. He does not want us to live. He has chased us out of the streets and has made no alternative arrangement for our survival.
“We are asking the governor to rescind this decision now or find ways to meet our basic needs.
“If he refuses to heed to this demand, we shall make sure we bring down his government. We are not going to pray that he dies, even if he wishes us so. We are not going to say that he should be impeached, because we voted him to power. What we will do is to hand him over to the Almighty God, and we know he will remove him the same way he removed the former person. We are servants of God, and he always hear our cry,” Kaduna State Beggars Association said in a statement on Monday.
credit: VANGUARD NG.
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Bussy Duro and 2 others like this.
Endy Edeson
@aniagolu:
well, everyone should be treated equally. though it's funny how the
beggers protested. PLEASE KINDLY ANSWER THIS QUESTION: are you related
to CHARLES ANIAGOLU who works as a NewsCaster for ARISE-NEWS LONDON? it
seems you both share the same surname
Janet Anyango
But Disability is not Inability!! If he can work, let him run the post given to him oooo, i bego!