DICKENS Sanomi Foundation has offered $48,000 (about N17.5million) for the treatment of a wounded Ali Ahmadu, a Chibok boy, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Ahmadu had a spinal cord injury when he was overrun by Boko Haram terrorists’ motorcycles when the terror group ransacked Chibok community, in Borno State, a few days after abducting the Chibok girls in April 2014.

Ahmadu was on Sunday, September 10, flown to Dubai for corrective spinal cord surgery and is expected back in three months.

The Dickens Sanomi Foundation was set up by Igho Sanomi owner of Taleveras Group.

The foundation decided to bankroll Ahmadu’s medical bill following an appeal by the Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care, GIPLC, a humanitarian group, which was raising funds for Ali’s corrective surgery.

Nuhu Fulani Kwajafa, founder of the GIPLC, at a chat with newsmen in Abuja said Ahmadu, after the incident, was kept under a tree for more than three days and had never been given any form of medication.

“Since his mother was able to remove him from under the tree to the house in Chibok, Ali has remained bedridden as a result of his spinal cord injury,” he said.  Kwajafa said the group brought him to Abuja and began to mobilise for his treatment following an appeal from someone from Chibok, who narrated his pitiful condition to the group.

“We moved into action immediately to raise the $65,000 required for the surgery in Dubai.

“Fortunately for us after meeting some Nigerians for assistance, including the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and some Nigerian lawmakers, we approached the Dickens Sanomi Foundation which has graciously made available the balance of $48,000 needed for the surgery,” he said.

Hayi Goodluck, a member board of trustees of the Dickens Sanomi Foundation, said the foundation would not only cater for him in Dubai but would also take up his educational needs on his return to the country.

Goodluck said, this would stabilise him and help him to live and actualise his dream as a man created by God.

The arrival of the boy at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja drew sympathy from many passengers who prayed endlessly for him and Sanomi, the founder of Dickens Sanomi Foundation.

– Sept 11, 2017 @ 10:13 GMT /