Buhari To Assist Visually-Impaired Corps Member

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to take up the responsibility of funding the treatment of Okenala Ahmed a 28 year old visually-impaired, serving member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The corp member who is undergoing his service year in Daura, Katsina State, is a graduate of Insurance from the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State.

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement, said that Ahmed was one of the corp members in the Local government that came to pay homage to the President in his country home in Daura, Kastina State.

“In the course of the President’s interaction with the Corps members, the Corps Liaison Officer (CLO), Jibrin Ishak, had appealed for assistance for their physically challenged member.

“According to the CLO, the indigent Corps member, who is from Offa, Kwara State, had earlier contemplated redeployment from Katsina State due to his health condition.

“President Buhari will undertake the cost of medical care and treatment of Ahmed, who is an Economics NYSC teacher at Government Day Senior Secondary School, Daura.” he said.