Nigeria: Sokoto Govt Plans to Evacuate 50 Lunatics From Streets

7 January 2014

The Sokoto State Commissioner for Social Welfare and Culture, Alhaji Zubairu Yari, said the state government would evacuate, treat and rehabilitate 50 lunatics from the streets of Sokoto metropolis.

Yari told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto on Tuesday that the mentally-ill persons would be treated at the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital in Kware, Sokoto State.

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