Southward flight of almajirai and northern leadership - Vanguard News

looking at the pictures of northerners fleeing to the South, during the COVID-19 lockdown, cannot escape being embarrassed. Here, in broad view of all Nigerians, as well as the entire world, are the poor people openly voting with their feet against their leaders in their desperate flight. Nobody has rigged this “election”. Almajiris, as southerners call all the destitute people in the deep North, have scanned their entire region and have arrived at the same conclusion: “There is no future here.

My first trip to the North was in 1974. It was by air to Kano and the two days’ visit was limited to the city. Even then, I saw enough to give me the impression that more horrors were lurking in the background. The next opportunity came approximately a year after in 1975. As the Marketing Manager of a multi-national company selling SIMILAC infant milk powder, I embarked on an extensive northern tour which took me from Kaduna to Jos and the North-East and back through Kano.

Collective GREED written in capital letters defined the attitude of the northern elite – more than any other zone. Even in the middle 1970s to early 1980s, when Nigeria was classified as a Middle Income nation, and ranked around 35 in Gross Domestic Product, GDP, only the North-West and North-East had widespread poverty as their common possession.

And for decades in the North, there were only two classes of educated northerners – Barewa or non-Barewa old boys.From Barewa, the boys enter into the most powerful positions in the Federal Civil Service and all walks of life in Nigeria. Even the military, in the early stages of their rule, succumbed. Figures are hard to get, but, I once read that one quarter of the expenditure on education in the region was spent on Barewa alone – in order to make it competitive with southern schools.

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