or residents of Lahdin Makole Village in Dawakiji Kudu Local Government Area of Kano State, some 40 kilometres outskirt of Kano, the pitiable sight of 19-year-old Rahma Haruna, sitting feebly in a green bowl to beg for alms everyday is heart shattering. But for them, the spirit is willing to assist her, but their pocket is not fat enough to render any substantial help to her. Her story: Rahma has no functional limbs.

What passes as limbs are some miniature features in the arm and leg positions. She only had a feeling of hands and legs for just six months. For the better part of her life, Rahma has been making a living in a green plastic bowl. With the support of her brother, Sani, who ferries her around day and night, she struggles with the realities of her situation from a circle-shaped synthetic bowl, which served as her begging cubicle. To say that life in the last 18 years has been traumatic for Rahma is stating the obvious.

Due to her condition, she has no friend, no formal education and she struggles with practicalities of everyday living, she can’t even brush her teeth, talk more of observing other hygienic rules.

As she admitted, the support of her family members, especially that of her brother, who couldn’t go to school as well because of funding, has kept her going.

Speaking to New Telegraph on how his daughter came about her physical limitation, Rahma’s father, Mallam Haruna Muhammad, explained that the 19-year-old wasn’t born that way, adding that he gave up all effort at finding solution to her state when medical practitioners told him that they can’t find cure for his daughter’s ailment. Narrating what led to Rahma’s present state, he said: “When Rahma was just six months old, we woke up one day and saw her crying profusely. That was how the whole thing started.

“Medical checks reveal that she has bone marrowrelated problem, but nobody ever told us she can be cured. We couldn’t get a place that will provide us or even give an insight on how she can be healed.”

With the assumed failure of orthodox medicine in finding solution to his daughter’s plight, Haruna decided to seek solace in traditional ways and after much consultation via that means, he was informed that Rahma would never get cured because the spirits are the ones tormenting her. Thus, they decided to accept their ‘fate’ and live with the situation.

He said: “At the end, we admitted that what happened to our daughter is nothing but the works of spirits because at a time those invisible livings spoke to us and said that she will never get a cure.”

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