Either you are ignorant or mischievous.
Let tweet on how Almajiris became street beggars.
1. All in the name of gaining Islamic education, Children as young as 4 years old are sent to faraway places where they are placed under an Mallam to learn gain knowledge about Islam.
Let tweet on how Almajiris became street beggars.
1. All in the name of gaining Islamic education, Children as young as 4 years old are sent to faraway places where they are placed under an Mallam to learn gain knowledge about Islam.
2. Though this practice endured over time, abuse of the process began to set in as the teachers, who are neither remunerated by parents of the children nor the government, began to lose grip of the unusually large number of children that are dumped on them by parents.
3. Although, An Almajiri is expected to be educationally oriented in the basics of Islam in his early childhood to prepare him for a chaste Muslim adulthood. But the practice today has deviated from this norm, giving way to a mass of bowl-carrying children roaming the streets.
4. Now with the increasing insecurity in the country has forced many Nigerians to have a more than cursory look at the Almajiri system and how it affects the nation.
5. It was perhaps to avoid a situation where by the large number of idle, uneducated children would be ready tools for terrorists that the then govt of president GEJ tried to build schools that could accommodate the large pool of almajiris in some of the states in the north.
6. GEJ’s approach toward the issue failed due to lack of commitment from the stakeholders in Almajiri education.
Despite billions of Naira allocated.
Despite billions of Naira allocated.
7. These children as easy recruits for the Boko Haram sect. Many street beggars do transform to street gangs.
Another factor to the growing number of almajiris in the North is the people’a resentment towards family planning and child spacing.
Another factor to the growing number of almajiris in the North is the people’a resentment towards family planning and child spacing.
8. The recent trend of teenagers getting involved in armed robbery and suicide bombing is an unfortunate revelation, but not surprising crime and social disorder is the climax implication of children out-of-school or children enrolled in dysfunctional school system.
9. The issue of Almajiri is a time bomb that can explode with catastrophic consequences on the region and the country if nothing is done about it.
For a major intervention to work it should go beyond taking the children off the streets.
For a major intervention to work it should go beyond taking the children off the streets.
10. How governments at the federal and states respond to the Almajiri story will determine the kind of future they want for Nigeria!!!
