Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation has raised a total of N41m to assist Kano indigene medical students that are currently studying in Egypt and Sudan respectively.

The money was raised yesterday in Kano during a special fund raising organised by the Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation to assist the students.

Speaking at the event, the Director General, Kwankwasiyya Development Foundation, Alhaji Surajo Habibu Tsafe, said Senator Kwankwaso was moved by the condition of the students when he visited them in the two countries recently.

He said, “After he returned to Nigeria, the senator directed the foundation to organise this event in order to generate some funds and assist the students to enable them complete their studies.”

Tsafe said that senator Kwankwaso would soon free over 2,000 inmates across the southern states, saying the gesture was part efforts towards decongesting Nigerian prisons.

He recalled that the senator had last year freed over 2,000 inmates with minor fines across the 19 northern states.

He explained that Kwankwaso would also donate relief materials to victims of the recent Benue ethnic clash, saying he had offered assistance to victims of Ile-Ife ethnic crisis last year.

He said, “The Kwankwasiyya Grand Commander has donated relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Adamawa, Borno, Yobe and Taraba states.”

The director general added that other assistances rendered by the senator through the foundation include empowerment of over 5,000 Mai Shayi, 5,000 women and youths across 19 northern states and sponsorship to over 500 Kano indigene medical students, who studied abroad.

Also speaking at the occasion, a House of Representative member representing Kano Municipal constituency, Alhaji Abubakar Nuhu Danbburan, who reviewed Kwankwaso’s achievements between 2011 and 2015, said the former governor had recorded tremendous achievement in the education sub-sector when he was governor of Kano state.

He said, “Kwankwaso has built 786 Kwankwasiyya classrooms across the 44 local government areas of Kano state, four Nomadic schools, 874 adult education classrooms, 26 institutes in various fields and one technical school each in the 44 local government area of the state.”

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