BUK 92 Alumni Frees Prisons Inmates, Provides Scholarship, Medications

BUK 92 Alumni Frees Prisons Inmates, Provides
Scholarships, Medications
The 1992 Graduates of Bayero University Kano, BUK 92 Class have
freed six prison inmates and provided a sum of N1mn for
scholarships of indigent students at the university as part of its
annual get-together ceremony.

Speaking of the annual charity programmes, the forum chairman,
Muhammad Dahiru Sa’ad said the said the old students had visited
Bayero University, the Central Prison and Aminu Kano Teaching
Hospital to provide the social interventions.

Sa’ad said: “The forum this year has provided fund for
intervention in critical sectors of our society like health, Social
Welfare.

“Apart from payment of fines for the release of six inmates in
Kano Central Prison, we have provided essential drugs and sewing
machines for the vocational centre and water storage tank to
improve water supply in the prison.

“On health, we have paid medical bills of indigent cancer
patients, especially of young children whose families could not
afford the expenses at the Aminu Kano Teaching.

“We have also provided financial assistance to the families of
our deceased and financial challenged members as well as token
gifts to some of the school drivers and hall administrators during
our schooling years in the university.

Responding after receiving the N1 million cheque from the forum
for the scholarship of indigent students, the Vice Chancellor of
Bayero University Kano, Professor Yahuza Bello commended the
initiatives of BUK 92 in sustaining the annual scholarships and
other interventions in the university and other sectors.

Professor Bello said: “I must say that the university is very
proud of the annual intervention in the schools and acknowledged
your proposed Prize for the Best Student in Business Law in honour
of your deceased member Mohammed Iro Maaji who obtained First Class
Degree at the Faculty of Social and Management Science in 1992. We
pray other groups of old students will emulate you.”

Also speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Controller of
Kano Central Prison, DCP Ubale Haruna commended the BUK 92 Forum
for freeing inmates through fine payments and the provision Storage
water tank and essential drugs for the inmates.

Haruna said: “We are delighted for your intervention in the
payment of fines and compensation for indigent inmates whose
offences do not pose risk to the general wellbeing of the society.
We urge similar associations to emulate your kind humanitarian
gestures which is quite exceptional and commendable from university
alumni.

By PRNigeria