Minister Collapses During Official Assignment In Adamawa
Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, Minister of Women Affairs[/caption]
The Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, on Monday, collapsed during an official assignment at the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
The minister, collapsed while addressing IDP women inside a store in the camp, but was quickly assisted to a chair and given a bottle of Coke to drink, which revived her.
It was learnt that Mrs Alhassan had been diagnosed with low sugar, a problem that creates serious weakness of the body.
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She arrived the IDP camp in crutches 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 North-east.
After a quick recovery from the incident, the minister summoned the strength to confirm to newsmen that girls and women were indeed being violated at the camps.
She had earlier said that she was at the camp to give a message from President Muhammadu Buhari to the displaced persons, who wanted them to cheer up despite the hardship because everything was being done to ensure that they go back to their homes.
She told the IDPs that the president was touched by their suffering and that was why he sent her to come and donate relief materials and felicitate with them.
