Jigawa Rehabilitation Board screens 33,869 people living with disabilities

Jigawa State Rehabilitation Board has screened 33,
869 people living with disabilities for injection into
the state social security scheme.
Executive Secretary of the board, Ibrahim
Rabakaya told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Dutse on Tuesday that those screened were
mainly the blind, lepers, cripples among others.
According to him, the exercise is to update the
record of the board which currently offers social
security allowance of N7000 to 2, 090 physically
challenged persons in the state.
Rabakaya said that the government spends
over N14.6 million monthly on the beneficiaries of
the scheme drawn from the 27 local government
areas of the state.