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Chairman, MKYROC Malam Abdullahi Tahir, right receivies an award from Mallam Ibrahim Maidawa representing Bauchi State Commissioner of Information and Communication
By Abbas Gungura, Bauchi
Graduates of the Malam Kawu Youth Rehabilitation and Orphanage Centre (MKYROC) in Bauchi have been assured of federal government’s soft loans to enable them peddle the various skills acquired from the centre during the rehabilitation and training period.
The director with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Bauchi, Alhaji Nuru Yusuf Kobi, who gave the assurance, said his office would facilitate the loans disbursement to the beneficiaries of the centre from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Development.
Alhaji Nuru Yusuf in a remark at the award presentation to the proprietor of the centre, Abdullahi Mohammed Tahir by the Bauchi Rehabilitation and Orphanage Reporters expressed dismay that products of the centre would have their talents wasted without necessary incentives to make them awash while becoming useful members of the society.
The proprietor of the centre, Alhaji Abdullahi Mohammed Tahir has earlier cried fault that despite rehabilitating inmates from Bauchi Custodian centre, NDLEA, Remand Home, and from the general public both within and outside the state, the centre has not been getting anything in terms of support, assistance or palliative from anywhere, the government inclusive.
Instead, the proprietor decried, constituted authorities turned to witch-hunting him for any possible default to apply sanction of likely closing the centre, saying such negative tendency tend to retard the growth and development of the state and the country at large.
Tahir, while describing the centre as a microscopism of Bauchi with its inmates from the 20 LGAs of the state, regretted however that a previous attempt by the state government to intervene into the centre through BASOVCA was administratively scuttled by retrogressive forces.
He revealed that among the most critical constraints bedeviling the centre included feeding due to the rising cost of commodities prices in the markets, admist the current economic depression, hence the need for assistance especially in terms of balanced diet to boost their nutrition for healthy growth and development.
Also describing basic education as mandatory with pupils in either primary, post primary and tertiary level, the centre proprietor solicited for scholarship sponsorship, means of transportation, and standby generator given the prevailing haphazard power supply, as well as some units of desktop computers to encourage pupils towards computer literacy.
Alhaji Abdullahi Tahir disclosed that the centre has a policy of teaching the youths skills acquisition to enhance their future self-reliance and development with experienced inmates in tailoring, carpentry, welding, computer operation, fashion designing, artisans, barbers, photography, cap making, and host of others.
“We are a start-up non-governmental and non-profit learning and rehabilitation centre with principal focus on rehabilitation and building capacity for youths to become useful and productive members of the society. We are a serious-minded management centre with focus on integrity, probity, accountability, transparency and results”, he concluded.
Earlier in a welcome address, the chairman of Rehabilitation and Orphanage Reporters , Comrade Usman Abbas Shehu, noted with concern that despite all these humanitarian services cutting across the socio-economic and political strata of the society, the centre is being bogged down by multifarious challenges with no assistance from anywhere.
Abbas Shehu therefore appeal to philanthropist, donor agencies and other multilaterals to come to support the centre in its quest to achieve its mandate of rehabilitating and reforming the vulnerable and orphanages in the society.
