CITY NEWS Woman scalds stepson over ‘moi moi’ Group donates to Kuchingoro IDPS
FCTA takes HIV screening to area councils
Ahousewife, Kadijat Yahaya, has been arrested by the police in Chukuku village in Kuje, FCT, for allegedly bathing an 18-month-old son of her husband’s second wife with boiling water.
A resident of the community, Isa Musa, said the distressed mother of the child, Mrs. Nana Yahaya, who narrated the ordeal of the little boy in the hands of Khadijat, said the incident happened on Wednesday, The FCT administration has distributed HIV rapid test kits to health facilities across the six area councils of the FCT.
The FCT Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretariat, Barrister Amanda Pam, made this disclosure yesterday in Abuja at a press briefing.
She said apart from up-scaling the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in rural areas with N2,595,220,646, the secretariat has also funded TB, family planning and vaccine programmes with N15,350,845.80, after she went to the market to purchase household items, while the child was left at home with the accused.
He said Nana claimed that the accused alleged that she was annoyed with the boy for eating the moi-moi (a local beans meal) she had cooked without her permission.
The mother of the child, who was badly burnt on his hands and buttocks, reported the incident to the village head of Chukuku, who immediately invited the police from N20,787,436.80 and N3,793,645,800, respectively.
The “FCT Logistics Management Coordinating Unit (LMCU) successfully supported the Last Mile Distribution ( LMD) of commodities worth N2,595,220,646, N15,350,842.80, N20,787,436.80, and N3,793,645,800 for HIV, TB, family planning and vaccine programmes respectively,” she said.
According to her, among the new projects the secretariat intends to embark on to improve health and human services in the territory are the rehabilitation and expansion of Kuje District Hospital to a standard Kuje, who arrested the accused.
Our reporter learnt that the husband, who is a labourer was not at home when the incident happened.
Effort to contact the Kuje Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) John Ali Zango, was not successful as his phone was not connecting, but an officer at the station confirmed the incident, saying the woman has been detained and investigation was ongoing. secondary health care facility.
Meanwhile, the secretary has decried the delay on some of the health and other allied matters bills of the secretariat still pending at the National Assembly. She, however assured that despite the obvious challenges, the secretariat would move the health sector of the FCT to the next phase in 2018.
The deputy director, Pharmacy Unit, Amos Aremu, explained that the sealing of some pharmaceutical firms within the nation’s capital was to curtail the activities of people who want to make profit at the expense of public health. A group, Marriage is Beautiful, has donated some relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs ) in Kuchingoro camp, Abuja, in celebrating this year’s Christmas.
The coordinator of the foundation, Pastor John Shuaibu, who was at the camp with his team, while donating the materials which included foodstuffs, clothing materials and cash, said they were motivated to support the displaced persons because “the life of a man is embodied in the impact he makes in people.”
He said no amount of wealth can compare to giving hope to the hopeless, adding that they were also motivated to use their personal resources for charity in marking the second year of their existence.
“Our main focus is addressing the issue of marriage and what it stands for in creating harmony and encouraging couples to remain married,” he said.
Receiving the materials on behalf of the displaced persons, the women leader, Lady Mathias, said they were grateful for every gift brought to them to relieve them of their suffering.
She added that they knew it would go a long way in helping them have a memorable Christmas celebration.