KANO – 76 freed minors hitherto detained in Abuja for their alleged role in the EndBadGovernance nationwide protest walked to a rousing welcome at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport Tuesday night. The contingent arrived in the city in the company of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf aboard Max aircraft around 9:57 pm to the waiting hands of top government officials, relations, and well-wishers. Tears of joy rolled down the cheeks of many at the airport as the visibly malnourished underage disembarked from the jumbo jet, with an intermittent chorus of Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest) renting the air.
The 76 minors were moved into a waiting luxury bus for 35 35-minute journey to Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital tucked in the sleepy quarters of Giginyu quarters located within the precinct of DSS headquarters in the city. Governor Yusuf on the other hand was conveyed in an 18-seater SUV Bus in the company of his Deputy, Aminu Abdussalam Gwarzo, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Alhaji Isma’ila Falgore, several key state officials, and other prominent figures. Daily INDEPENDENT reporters on the convoy report that hundreds of youths mounted a vigil at strategic corridors to welcome the governor back home.
A huge, but orderly crowd took over a straight leading to the hospital chanting “Kano, sai Abba”, as the governor stopped to acknowledge their cheer dead midnight. On arrival at the hospital, a team of medical professionals already on standby evaluated the children’s .