‘’We the proprietors of sangayya schools wrote a letter to the National Assembly for public hearing but we were waiting to get a response....
By Abdulgafar Alabelewe, Kaduna; Joel Duku, Damaturu; Onimisi Alao, Yola and David Adenuga, Bauchi
“So, the children you see do come from far away in other states to learn about Islam here. Others used to go from here to other places too.“I feel bad because the government that is evacuating these boys and repatriating them has not provided alternative on how they are going to be given Islamic knowledge desired for them by their parents.
“They should start with the ones repatriated to their states, enroll them, then employ Islamic teachers to give them the knowledge they were getting from Almajiri schools and employ teachers to give them conventional education.” “The reason the Almajiri children go out to beg for alms is because we, as teachers, and the parents cannot afford to cater for them.
“It’s difficult already. It’s going to be really bad when all of them are gone if the government continues with its plan to send all of them to their home states,” he said.The proprietor of an almajiri school in Bauchi State, Dr. Mohammed Mujtaba, also faulted the repatriation of almajirai following the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.“Relocating them to their home states has contributed to the spread of the coronavirus. It was a right decision taking at a wrong time.
“We at sangiyya schools are not putting out almajirai to be beggars on the streets. We make provisions for them without collecting a dime in terms of tuition fees.”
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