Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has ordered evacuation of all persons living with mental health disorder roaming streets of the metropolis and environs.
The Governor ordered that the persons be evacuated to psychiatric hospital for treatment.
The Senior Special Assistant, SSA on Vulnerable and Needy to the Governor, Fauziyya D. Sulaiman who confirmed this to newsmen said the Governor’s action was informed by several complaints received about the persons roaming the streets naked with some of the female among them being molested.
According to her, “following several complaint received by the Governor over the persons living with mental health disorder who are roaming streets in the metropolis and environs. Some of them go about naked and in the process some of them were molested especially the female.
“The Governor however ordered that they all be evacuated from the streets to psychiatric hospital for proper medical treatment,” the SSA Vulnerable and Needy to Kano State Governor, Fauziyya D. Sulaiman however stated.
