Boko Haram: 6yr Old Survivor Walks Again With Support Of GIPLC Foundation

Ali Ahmadu, a six year old survivor of the inhumane activities of the deadly Boko Haram sect can walk again after years of confinement to a wheel chair.

This follows the support of a foundation, Global Initiative For Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC), who splashed over N14 million in ensuring Ahmadu’s complete rehabilitation.

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Ahmadu had sustained a spinal cord injury after Boko Haram’s murderous invasions about four years ago, in a village in Chibok local government area in Borno.

Coordinator of the Foundation, Mr Nuhu Kwajafah, who spoke with journalists at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on the arrival of Ali, on Monday, said the “little boy, Ali who left this airport on a wheel chair, couple of months ago, is back before you today on his two feet, looking handsome and ready to start his new life.

“The surgery took place at a medical facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The medical bill for the spinal cord surgery that enabled young Ali to walk again, was $48,000, which is N14,640,000.00, equivalent to Nigerian currency.

Kwajafah said, “Since that (Boko Haram) incident, the little boy never accessed any form of orthodox medication. He was at the mercy of traditionalist, in highly unpredictable and perilous times, where access to education, nutrition, psychosocial tuning, water, sanitation or hygiene, was very limited, if not non-existent.

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“From that period till the 1st quarter of this year, 2017, when we made contact with him. After duly assessing the various options open to us, from all over the world, we resolved to take him to the UAE. After almost six hours of extremely delicate surgery, about a week in ICU and a month in recovery, Ali took his first steps into a brighter future,” the foundation coordinator said.

He said that GIPLC “is committed” to Ali’s post surgery well being while the Dickens Sanomi Foundation has expressed support for Ali’s “settling back into the society.

Taleveras Foundation on its part, Kwajafah disclosed has equally pledged to provide him an Educational scholarship as he settles in Abuja.

Ali while fielding questions from journalists, said: “thank you to you all. I am okay now. I can now do anything I like. I am strong again”.

A member of the Board of Dickens Sanomi Foundation, Mr Goodluck Hayi said, “About three months ago, we all witnessed at the same airport how Ali was taken away on a wheel chair but, today, to the glory of God, we are here to receive him walking handsomely into our arms.

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“We will help him settle into Abuja, to grow as a child should with love and care. I am authorized to announce that an Educational Scholarship will be provided for Ali, until he gets to University by the Taleveras Foundation”.

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