Sometimes, children as young as four years are plucked from the loving comforts of their parents and sent to faraway places where they are placed under an Islamic teacher to learn knowledge about Islam and Islamic religion. 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.
Explaining the rationale behind the governor’s action, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Abba Anwar told Saturday Vanguard that ‘the new initiative will checkmate the menace of street begging among Almajiris. About 393 Almajiri schools were selected across the 44 local government areas of the state for the pilot project and the pupils would be taught English, mathematics and other relevant subjects on Thursdays and Fridays.ý
”Almajiri is a very serious issue that is defying all solutions. If you look at the teachings of Islam carefully, it doesn’t support the issue of taking children away from their parental care and entrusting them to the care of someone who calls himself a mallam or whatever to be roaming about from one place to another.
On his part, the Plateau State Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bashir Musa maintained the Almajiri system should be integrated into the Nomadic Education curriculum and its activities regulated.”The Almajiri system is also a system of education but it has its positive and negative effects. The negative effect is when you allow the trust the parents of the children under your care to be abused.
On his part, another Islamic scholar in Damaturu the Yobe state Capital, Mallam Mohammed Isa called for the complete abolition of Almajiri as it is presently practised in most parts of the north as according to him, it is against Islamic teachings. UMAR Abubakar expressed worries that such children are no longer receiving the intended knowledge they were brought for, but rather their Mallams have commercialized them either for farming or for other purposes that can earn them money and material gains. He alleged that the Almajiris constitute the large percentage of the insecurity ravaging the country, especially in the Northern states.
“We Africans mostly live fake lives which include marrying many wives and giving birth to many Children we cannot adequately take care of. As an alternative, these fathers use their wives and Children to earn Economic Power by sending them to the farm but life has changed now. life has changed from totally depending on farming to other legitimate and lucrative businesses.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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