Lepers community in Adamawa demand for social amenities
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Lepers
Demsa (Adamawa), Jan. 7, 2016 ( NAN) Lepers in Sabon-Gari, Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa have appealed to the state government to provide them with social amenities.
The lepers complained on Saturday that the area require link road, schools, electricity and potable water.
Mr Benos Sagba, state Vice Chairman, National Association of People Living with Leprosy, made the appeal on behalf of the community in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He urged Gov. Muhammadu Jibrillah to assist the leprosy resettlement centre with social amenities, as it has been completely neglected.
“ We are appealing to Gov. Muhammadu Jibrillah to assist the leprosy resettlement with road linking the community.
“Others include rehabilitation of our children’s school and provision of teaching and learning facility as well as to complete the electricity project which was abandoned years ago.”
He noted that the community was in dire need of government intervention to help their children acquire education and move out of poverty.
Sagba lamented that 95 per cent of the parents living in the community were suffering from leprosy which made it difficult for them to earn enough with which to send their children to school.
“We are also looking for government to assist us with food, clothes and medicine,” he added. (NAN)
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Edited by Abiodun Oluleye/Maharazu Ahmed