Kebbi State Government received 83 Almajiri children who were repatriated to the state by the Kano State Government.
The children, who were all hale and hearty, were received by the Chairman of the state Task Force on COVID-19, Alhaji Jafar Mohammed, on behalf of the Kebbi State Governor, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu.
Mohammed disclosed that the children hailed from 7 local governments of Birnin Kebbi, Kalgo, Dandi, Argungu, Maiyama, Jega and Yauri, while one of them is a citizen of the neighboring Niger Republic.
He said that all the children will be handed over to the chairmen of their respective local governments who were physically present at the event, while the child from Niger Republic would be taken to his country.
