Foundation visits Chibok boy after successful surgery
Boko Haram’s child victim, Ali Ahmadu, has survived a corrective surgery in Dubai after being in the Intensive Care Unit for 48 hours.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees Igho Sanomi and members of the Dickens Sanomi Foundation, who sponsored the surgery, were still at his bed side.
During the surgery, doctors described Ali as, “a very strong boy who was determined to live.”
Nuhu Kwajafa, the founder of the Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC), the organization that coordinated young Ali’s surgery, said the surgery was very successful.
“After five hours in surgery, on September 17, 2017, and 48hrs in the intensive care unit, To God be the glory Ali Ahmadu Chibok had a very successful procedure and is currently stabilizing and recovering. “It has been a divine journey starting from far away Chibok in 2014; a little boy left to dead, underneath a tree, after a vicious Boko Haram attack, to where we are today,” he said.
Kwajafa said “In young Ali we have a fighting spirit, a resolute and charming soul, beating all odds to survive and to walk again, this reflects so truly the Nigerian spirit, we are indeed grateful to God.”
Ahmadu sustained a spinal cord injury after Boko Haram rode over him with a motorcycle as he slept in Chibok when the terrorists invaded the village. The injury made it difficult for the young boy to walk. Sanomi foundation came to his aid recently by paying the medical bill estimated at $48,000 (N17.5 million).