Minister, Kwara First Lady Offer Support For Abandoned Blue-Eyed Girls

Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, and Kwara first lady, Olufolake AbdulRazaq, have both offered scholarships to the children of a poor blue-eyed mother, Risikat Azeez, who were abandoned by their husband, Abdul-Wasiu Omo-Dada.

Personal Assistant to the Minister, Shola Kolawole said this during a visit to the mother of the girls, Risikat, who is also blue-eyed.

Kolawole, who also offered cash gift to the family, said that no kid should be denied access to education and a chance to live.

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"Her story was compelling and pitiable. Two young kids and mother abandoned by the husband through no fault of theirs. No kid should be denied education and a chance to live.

"I was moved by compassion. As an Ogbomoso indigene, they live next door to us in Ilorin. They are my neighbours. The Bible admonishes that we should love the neighbors that we see,” he said.

The minister’s intervention comes as cheery news for Risikat and her kids, who had never been to school,

In the same vein, the Chief Press Secretary to Wife of Kwara State Governor, Olufolake Abdulrazaq, has confirmed that the first lady is also going to offer her support to the mother and children.

“Azeez has been gotten across to by the Director of Protocol to her Excellency, Hassan Raphael. She has been invited and when eventually she appears here, talks generally will bother on what she will like to do going forward, empowering her and afterward mediate on how she will possibly be reunited with her husband – that is possible.

“But in the interim, she has been invited and she will be asked what she will like to do to fend for her children and herself. Her Excellency will also talk to her about how to enroll the children in school after school lockdown is over. Resettling her is part of the plan too.”

Also, the DOP to the governor’s wife, Raphael, said, “Her Excellency picked interest in the woman and the girls. She said she will like to see them. May be on Monday. She has also contacted the Commissioner for Education to enroll the children in school. There are some other things she plans to do for the woman but I cannot say precisely.”