The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) is set to repatriate Almajiris (beggars) to their states of origin as means to contain spread of Coronavirus in the Northern region.
This is contained in a statement made available to Newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday by Malam Yahaya Sarki, the Special Adviser to Gov. Abubakar Atiku-Bagudu of Kebbi State on Media, in Kebbi on Wednesday.
He said the governors disclosed this in Birnin Kebbi while interacting with the State Task Force on COVID-19 at the Kebbi Medical Centre, Kalgo, Vanguard reports.
The governor also said that the resolutions were reached at the meeting of the NGF in Kaduna on Tuesday.
He said that all the northern states had been mandated to take steps, to return Almajiri children to their states of origin.
This, he said, was part of concerted efforts by northern states governors, Federal Government and other stakeholders to further stem the tide of the raging global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
He explained that some of the almijiri children from the state had since been returned to Kebbi from Kaduna State.
Bagudu said: “Some states have already started implementing this decision by taking back such almijiri children to their own states of origin.
“I do believe that all the states in the region will soon commence the repatriation and this is for the common good of the states and Nigeria, in general,” he said.
Bagudu also expressed happiness that Kebbi state had remained COVID-19 free and prayed that “Insha-Allah it will remain”.
