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By Abbas Gungura, Bauchi
Not fewer than 33 students weekend graduated from the Malam Kawu Youths Rehabilitation and Orphanage Centre (MKYROC) in Bauchi with one of the beneficiary from the Cameroon republic.
The Chairman/ Proprietor of the centre, Abdullahi Muhammad Tahir, enumerated the graduands as Kano has 4, Taraba 3, Gombe, Borno and Yobe has one each, Toro LGA has 9, Bauchi LGA and Alkaleri LGA has 5 each, Dass 2 and Ningi 1.
Tahir while briefing journalists shortly after the graduation ceremony, said that the major challenge facing the centre is the inordinate posture by some constituted authorities to pin him down.
According to him, he has become a victim of circumstances that the government often send watches to determine how the centre with a view to pick defaults for subsequent punishment or nasty treatment.
“Members of the SSS and DSS frequently visit this centre with a view to find evasions on its operations. There was a day when an SSS officer was brought on admission with the sole aim of investigations. So I really need prayers against these witch-hunts”, he urged.
Abdullahi Tahir, expressed gratitude to Almighty Allah that all the 33 graduating students of the centre have accomplished 60 hibs of the Holy Qur’an, saying apart from rehabilitating the vulnerable and refractory children, they were being trained on various skills to make them self-reliance after graduation.
The Chairman/proprietor however expressed dissatisfaction with the way and manner the centre is being segregated in terms of loans acquisition from financial institutions and organizations, saying they were denied even the recent agricultural loans, despite filling the necessary forms.
Malam Abdullahi Tahir recalled that they have on several occasions sought for small scale loans to empower the centre students, not only to make them self-reliance after graduation but also useful members of the society. He use this opportunity to thank the Media for their usual support, cooperation and understanding with constant publicity accorded him that make this centre what is it today and hoped that the relationship will continue to enable him succeed in his humanitarian activities.
