BREAKING: Minister of women affairs collapses at IDP camp

– Hajiya Aisha Alhassan reportedly collapsed
at an IDP camp in Adamawa state
– The minister of women affairs is said to
have been diagnosed of low sugar
Emerging reports suggest that the minister
of women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan,
collapsed at an Internally Displaced
Persons’ (IDPs) camp on Monday, September
19.
Minister of women affairs, Aisha Alhassan
reportedly collapsed at an IDP camp in
Adamawa state.
According to This Day, the minister collapsed
at a camp situated in Fufore Local
Government Area of Adamawa state while
addressing vulnerable IDP women inside a
store in the camp.
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 sequel to an
allegation by some foreign non-
governmental organisations (NGOs) on
violation of some girls and women at the
IDPs’ camps in the Northeast.
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.
According to some of her aides, she had
been diagnosed with low sugar, a problem
that creates serious weakness of the body.
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.
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.
Alhassan also paid a courtesy visit to the
Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji
Muhammadu Bindow, and told him that her
visit to the IDPs was to investigate
allegations of violation of girls and women
and the compound issues of orphans and
the vulnerable.
She used the occasion to remind the
governor of calls by various women groups
on the need to return the women
development centre, which was given to the
Court of Appeal for its use.
The state commissioner for Information, Mr
Ahmad Sajoh, in his remarks, told the
minister and her staff that the governor
celebrated the last Ed-el-Kabir with the IDPs
at the Malkohi camp.
According to Sajoh, the governor and his
cabinet, including some All Progressives
Congress (APC) stalwarts ate and danced
with the displaced persons.
In his brief remarks, Bindow stressed the
need for peaceful co-existence, adding:
“Without peace, no one would readily do
anything.”
The deputy governor, Mr Martins Babale, in a
vote of thanks, observed that keeping the
IDPs was still a problem because of the state
of the economy.
According to him, the state was still
expecting about 56,000 displaced persons
from Cameroun.
It would bee recalled that there have been
similar reports regarding the poor state of
health of some ministers of the present
dispensation.
Sometime earlier in the year, there were
reports that Nigeria’s minister of labour and
employment, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige,
collapsed at the National Assembly.
The collapse reportedly took place on the
sacred floor of the parliament on Thursday,
February 18. However, a couple of hours
after several controversial publications,
Senator Chris Ngige denied the reports that
he collapsed during National Assembly
budget defence.
Speaking with The Nation correspondent
aboard an aircraft from South Africa, on
February 18, he described the report as
rumour aimed at damaging his strength and personality.