Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Wednesday, appointed a Special Assistant on Persons with Disability, apparently in reaction to threats by beggars in the state to bring down his government.
The appointment was announced in a statement signed by the governor’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, stating that El Rufai has appointed Aliyu Muhammed Salisu as his Special Assistant on Persons with Disability.
Salisu, an indigene of Sabon Gari, Zaria, holds a diploma in Special Education from Kaduna Polytechnic and another diploma in Guidance and Counseling from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
A member of the National Association of the Blind, Salisu has worked at the Kaduna State Rehabilitation Centre and is the chairman of the Braille Production Centre in Kaduna.
DAILY POST recalls that beggars in the state had threatened to bring the Kaduna State government if it refuses to reverse its order on the ban on street begging without providing an alternative means of income for them.
“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 hears our cry,” the Kaduna State Beggars Association had said in a statement on Monday.
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