The Kaduna State Government has decided to work on a sacrosanct problem of the northerners which is foundational education,
Reports have it that Kaduna State Government introduced measures to curb the increasing number of Almajiri children in the state, Tuition-Free Education at the primary and secondary school level with free meal during the school hour was one of the measures introduced.
This is aimed at making education attractive for children and parents. According to reports, the idea behind the Almajiri system of education is to expose children between the ages of 4 and 7 to learn the Holy Quran, assisted by the Mallams.
It was reported that some of the children move from street to street, house to house in clusters and with bowls in hands singing and begging for arms instead of searching for knowledge. The 2009 statistics from the Ministry of Education, estimated 10 million Almajiri children who are found in northern Nigeria, and the figure keeps increasing by the day. The system has been blamed for a rise in the number of beggars and miscreants in most urban cities in the north.
Speaking to Channels Television, some of the children explained that they had lived at the Islamic school for more than four years, and their teacher, also known as Mallam, send them out to beg everyday.
Some Muslims criticised the system alleging that some of the Islamic teachers have deviated from the original concept of the system, and are rather using the children for money making, which is arguably true as You see them begging for arms on the road We all ply.
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