“We will give them opportunity to continue with their studies to secondary schools and beyond.”
and secondary school education programme of the state is laudable and indeed, a step in the right direction at this time. In the same vein, the Council of Ulama’s concern about the process should not be ignored. It should be used to strengthen the policy instrument to fight poverty and ignorance in the commercial capital of the North.
The governor further warned that if any Almajiripupil is caught engaged in street begging, the parent or guardian of such a child would be taken to court for disrespecting the law banning the practice. The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by a Director in the Ministry, Mrs. Aisha Liman, commended the state government’s effort, saying that what the state is doing under the new policy is exemplary.
According to him, the right steps to follow in banning street begging include firstly, the Quranic clerics involved have to be identified because there are street beggars who are Quranic students; there are beggars who are sent by their parents from the rural areas; there are also beggars engaged by physically challenged individuals. He said all these forms of street beggars need to be identified and each one addressed accordingly.
Doubtless, the Almajirisystem has blighted Kano and the North in general such that whatever measures the authorities would like to implement to give a new lease of life and build a better future should be supported.
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