The Minister of women affairs and social development, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, has reacted to a wide concocted story carried in some of the National dailies that she has slumped down and fainted during her two day official visit to the Internal Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa state.
Aisha replied: “I have never slumped during my two days official visit to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Fufore LGA of Adamawa state ”
The minister who went to Adamawa base on an order by President Muhammadu Buhari,instructed her to go round the IDPs camps to investigate allegations of human abuse in all the camps located in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. Speaking through her director of information, Mallam Hassan Dodo, Mama Taraba said
“When I went into the stores to inspect the items, it was quite stuffy and I had to sit down, I even spoke to some press men after the inspection, I am shocked that it was reported that I slumped”. She said that after the visit she had gone to the government house and held town hall meeting with some women before finally leaving the state, saying, “I don’t know why the media will report something so false”. Reports had earlier suggested that Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, collapsed at an Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp on Monday, September 19.
According to This Day, the minister collapsed at a camp situated in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa state while addressing vulnerable IDP women inside a store in the camp. The report stated that Alhassan, who was in crutches when she arrived the camp, and after addressing the IDPs, entered the store to discuss with some of the said vulnerable women sequel to an allegation by some foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on violation of some girls and women at the IDPs’ camps in the Northeast.
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