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Taraba rejects almajiris transferred from Nasarawa

Taraba rejects almajiris transferred from Nasarawa

Some ‘almajiri’ children transferred from Nasarawa State to Taraba
state, were rejected by the state government on Monday May 4.

The children who arrived the Taraba capital, Jalingo, from Lafia,
Nasarawa’s capital on Sunday alongside officials of the Nasarawa State
Ministry of Women Affairs, were rejected because “Nasarawa officials did
not observe due protocol.”

Premium Times reported that the children slept outside the office of
the Secretary to the Taraba State Government on Sunday May 3, and were
only attended to at 10 a.m. on Monday. They were formally rejected with a
letter addressed to the Secretary to Government of Nasarawa State
and instructions to the officials to take the children back.

The letter from the office of the Secretary to Taraba State
government, dated May 4, 2020 with reference no SSG / ADM/ S/ 167/ 11/
125 was signed by one Sunday Maiyaki, Permanent Secretary Political
Cabinet Affairs and General Services. It reads in part;

“The unphysical verification the number of pupils brought to Taraba
State are 79 not 102 as stated in the letter brought from Nasarawa
state.

“The government of Taraba State wish to return the pupils to you and
requests that the pupils should be properly profiled indicating their
local government of origin in Taraba State and ‘individual status’ in
respect of the pandemic.”

One of the Nasarawa State Official who expressed disappointment with the development said;

“All the almajiris were kept in isolation in a secondary school in
Lafia and tested for coronavirus and all of them are negative.

“Almajiris brought were not provided with food and left inside
vehicles that brought them for several hours and only to be rejected
even though they are indigenes of the state.

“We were asked to take the almajiris back to Nasarawa with a letter
addressed to the Secretary to Nasarawa State Government with N100,000 to
fuel our vehicles.”

Taraba commissioner of information, Danjuma Adamu however said that
the kids were rejected because Nasarawa officials did not observe ‘due
protocol’.

Adamu said;

“Due protocol was not followed in returning them back. The (Taraba)
state government needs to know their exact number, health status
(positive or negative to COVID-19) in details and their respective local
government areas. Not just pack them in buses for the sake of returning
them.”

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