All Smiles as Boko Haram Child-Victim Returns to Nigeria After Successful Spinal Surgery
It was a joyous moment yesterday when six-year-old Ali Ahmadu, a victim of the Boko Haram insurgency who was confined to a wheelchair, returned to Nigeria from Dubai after undergoing a corrective surgery.
Ali who hails from Chibok Local Government Area in Borno state was run over with a motorcycle by Boko Haram terrorists when they invaded Chibok village in 2013, News Agency of Nigeria reports.
While attempting to escape from the terrorists with his mother, Little Ali suffered a horrific spinal cord injury.
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He was flown to Dubai by an NGO, Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care ((GIPLC) in conjunction with Taleveras Group. Ali’s treatment was sponsored by Dickens Sanomi Foundation, owners of Taleveras Group of companies.
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On arrival at the airport, Mr Goodluck Hayi, Board Member of Dickens Sanomi Foundation, expressed happiness that Ali, who was taken away on a wheel chair in September, could now walk again, unaided.
Hayi said the initial amount estimated for the surgery could not cover the cost at the end, saying it was not necessary to disclose the amount spent since it was a charity work.
He announced that Ali would be given scholarship by the Taleveras Foundation to study up till university level.
According to him, the Foundation’s work is hinged on the principle of love and care which it demonstrates by being its neighbor’s keeper as well as teaching and showing it.
The boy is so full of life and happy!
Thank God for sparing the life of this innocent boy.
Awwwwwww thank God for his life.
Thnk God