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Back From India, Amputee Zubairu Pays Thank You Visit To Dankwambo (photos)

Zubairu in a Thank You Handshake with His Excellency, Gombe State Governor, Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo.

Meets the Governor.
Zubairu Abubakar.

The Oasis Reporters

December 26, 2018

Zubairu Abubakar arrives Government House, Gombe with his grandfather (left) and his father, to thank the Gombe State governor.

Twelve year old boy named Zubairu Abubakar in Gombe State who had his hands amputated as punishment by his Koranic teacher for allegedly stealing a phone that led to the cessation of blood flow to his hands, has returned from a specialist hospital in India.

Shocked, when the news got to him in March this year, Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo promptly made arrangements for the young lad to be flown to India for specialist treatment, just as he promised to be responsible for his education up to University level.

Doctors said they had to amputate the boy’s two hands because they had become infected and gangrenous as a result of the brutal punishment meted out to him by the head teacher of his school, one Malam Sirajo Mohammed.

The boy later developed an infection that led to complications, resulting in the amputation of his two hands at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe.

Gombe State governor, Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo then directed the State Commissioner for Justice to ensure that the culprit whose action led to the amputation of young Zubairu Abubakar’s hands, be arrested and prosecuted.
The governor also promised to settle all the medical bills incurred in the treatment of the 12-year-old child.
Dankwambo made the promise when he paid a visit to the victim at the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Gombe.

Dankwambo then took to his Facebook page to declare that “no child anywhere in the North or elsewhere in Nigeria should be made to go through this kind of pain on account of primordial beliefs.
For kids like Zubairu to be able to aspire and as well acquire basic education in life, I personally converted my family house in Gombe to a school where the Almajiris will be given Quranic and conventional education simultaneously.
May Allah bring him quick healing, Amen.”

The Governor, Dr. Dankwambo further added, “I want to specially thank each and every one of you who drew my attention to what happened to young Zubairu.”
“I read all your reactions and opinions on this platform and I heeded to so many of them.”

Father of the victim, Malam Yusha’u Abubakar, expressed appreciation to the governor for the financial and moral support given to his family. He said that without the timely intervention of the state government, it would have been very difficult for the family to take care of all the medical bills.

On Zubairu’s return from India, he was accompanied by his father and grandfather to pay a thank you visit to Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo at Government House on December 25, 2018.

Greg Abolo

Blogger at The Oasis Reporters.

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