Fifteen-year-old Musa was one of the teenagers returned to Kaduna State by the Plateau State government where he had been taken to learn the Qur’an and also beg for his daily feeding in a system po…
Fifteen-year-old Musa was one of the teenagers returned to Kaduna State by the Plateau State government where he had been taken to learn the Qur’an and also beg for his daily feeding in a system popularly referred to as almajiranci. But barely three months after he left his home in Saminaka, Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna, Musa alongside dozens of others were repatriated back to Kaduna as part of a strategy by governors of the northern states of Nigeria to contain the spread of Covid-19.
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