According to some of her
aides, she had been diagnosed with low sugar, a problem that creates serious
weakness of the body.
The Minister of Women
Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, collapsed Monday at the Internally Displaced
Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State while
addressing vulnerable IDP women inside a store in the camp.
According to
ThisDay,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. While discussing with the women, she collapsed, but was
quickly assisted to a chair and given a bottle of Coke to drink, which revived
her.
But despite her state of
health, she managed to explain to journalists at the camp that her fact-finding
mission to Yobe, Borno and Adamawa States tend to confirm the foreign NGOs’ allegation
on violation of some girls and women at the IDPs’ camps in the North-east.
The minister 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.
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