It is very worrisome.

bastards rejected by parents you may say? perhaps the writer dont know what and who is an Almajiri....

They're the ones they recruit to do the killings in the North

If you’ve ever been to the North, you’ll wonder where these kids come from. In Katsina for example, they are in all the areas of the state capital, there is no single place you’ll go in Katsina town where you won’t find these kids. As early as 7am, they’ll come to your gate and start begging for alms/food, sometimes people put remnants by their gates/doorsteps so when these kids come they just pick em up for meal.

They are also always around anywhere food is sold, roadside food vendors, parks food vendors and even hang around some eateries, old and young, (young most populous). They walk around aimlessly with their bowls in their hands, it will surprise you that those bowls were donated to them by some rich fellow. I vividly remember in Daura sometimes last year during the Ramadan period, a rich man distributed brand new begging bowls to a number of almajiris in Daura town and it was tagged as helping the poor. I was like what the heck? You’re only encouraging these kids to beg on.

What I noticed about this almajirinci system is that it will be a very difficult trend to end anytime soon. An average rich Northerner (male or female) love to be paid obeisance. They enjoy it when they’re greeted “Rankadede”, who else will roll on the floor and bow to greet them if not the large population of the poor/almajiri. The North can only progress if their people/elites take the bull by the horn and make moves to end this. But will they? I seriously don’t think they will want to, these guys add a large chunk of numbers to their votes.

What the North needs is serious educational reforms, both islamic and western. All what they practice and tag as being Islamic are not true. Saudi Arabia is an Islamic state and I’ve never heard of Almajiri/Almuajirun (Arabic interpretation) taking place over there as it is done here.

Rejected by parents? Then why bring children you cannot fend for into the world? The children should be forced on them. Who are they rejecting them for? Oh... Maybe their uncle at the top though. Rubbish culture.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist.
Very intelligent and good journalist

Waiting for the first Almajiri to call the writer IPOB.

Sharrap, Almajiri is the pride of the north.
Arrewa Tissaia

The Al majiri system is obsolete and dehumanizing.

It should never be practised again.

Who is to be blamed? please see below if u need help

Northern Nigeria is a totally different place (in every facet and context and ramification possible) from the Southern part. Joining it with the latter was an UNHOLY AND INHUMAN ACT.
The numerous essays written in support or to relate we can’t relate to. The whole almajiri concept is alien to us. Forcing us to look at it won’t cut it, we do not have the inherent understanding to “get” and accept and “heal” that culture. Write the UN, the Sudan experience is what is needed. Not these essays.
This is simply the harsh truth.
I won’t even read that.

Modified- I will read it shaa, when less angry
I have read it. Nothing changes.

Rgade:

Sharrap, Almajiri is the pride of the north.
Arrewa Tissaia

is not we are ashamed of it

giving birth to children you cannot cater for is the highest level of wickedness.
how cold-hearted are you to bring someone to this world just to suffer
no family planning in that part of the kwantree. just drink burantashi and fvck all day

Igbos are desperately looking for male kids, just hand them over to Igbo families, problem solved.

SeverusSnape:
We have 'high bugdet' Almajiris on Nairaland. Those that are paid by the government to defend all their rubbish online. They are truly being used and abused by politicians.

comes to mind

Tissaia:
is not we are ashamed of it

Then you are not a real northerner.
You must be an imposter
You can't possibly know better than Adamu Garba.

I really don't know how some women think sha!
You see almajiris as little as four years old. A woman gives birth, and then releases her son to go and beg!!! And he is taken out of his state to a diff one, kia.

SeverusSnape:
We have 'high bugdet' Almajiris on Nairaland. Those that are paid by the government to defend all their rubbish online. They are truly being used and abused by politicians.

We had them since 2010

amajiri is not my concern. I don't care about them a bit.
their leaders, religion and parents should be blamed

I will always say it,
Nigeria would have been a great and a better nation if not the northern part of Nigeria. There is no country in the world that can share a country with the northerners and record a single success in a year.
All their news will be centered on terrorism, religious war, child marriage, Illetracy, etc.

SeverusSnape:
We have 'high bugdet' Almajiris on Nairaland. Those that are paid by the government to defend all their rubbish online. They are truly being used and abused by politicians.

You are blessed

Rgade:

Then you are not a real northerner.
You must be an imposter
You can't possibly know better than Adamu Garba.

Ok

ikorodureporta:


y?? God will never forgive whoever brought them to this world

It's not God problem oh. God gave u a dick n a brain. He expected u to use the later more than the former. So why call him out now?

The Amajiris are the kind of people they should be using for rituals because no one cares about them not those people loved by their parents.

It is the problem of the north, they should deal with it

One chance be that. Family planning is key.

Why are there no female almajiri, there is something fishy about their existence, historians

Whose headache is that supposed to be? Sanusi said there should be a law about taking a second wife or more. He said someone should reach a particular financial level before taking another wife and there should be age limit for marriage. They told him nobody gave him power over their religion which approves Polygamy.
When someone dies, they contribute money to mosque projects and even came to him that they wanted to build N5m, N19m and above mosques dueto revelation from Allah. He asked them to stop and invest in Education instead, they refused!
He was disgraced publicly and dethroned, so what's our business with all these?

hmm!

Stop FORNICATION, people will not listen.

Now you see the result.

This is the mother of Baby Factory in the Nigeria.

Northerners are disgrace to ISLAM, and all Muslims, they are a disgrace to NIGERIA and a disgrace to all BLACK PEOPLE.

Northerners are a disgrace to Nigeria for allowing such stupidity in the name of Islam.
Northern Nigeria can never make Nigeria to grow, because they know the root of their problems and they are adamant on changing what lead to that problem and keep on defending the root cause of those problems.
An average Northerner will defend child marriage, almajiris and maltreatment of others based on differences in religious beliefs and above all in their heads, they are better than the rest of Nigerian tribes and better than Yoruba Muslims when it comes to practicing Islam.

Seeing the Almajiris I would shed tears, as they are usually with torn cloths, dirty, I used to be so engrossed with pains that I do feel like locating the parents of such children and handing them over to soldiers to kill because they do not deserve to have a womb or a sexual organ for reproduction. And with this, you will still see a Northerner defending such nonsense, saying he would have many wives and many children.

The only Solution is to pick all the Northern Alfas, Sheikhs, Ustadhs and camp them in a room for detoxification in their brain as regards Islam, then put the right Islamic knowledge there, then send them back to preach to their people. Until this, we will continue to experience this problem of
1. Child marriage
2. Illiteracy
3. Almajiris
4. Killings/banditry
This is because for many years back, they have been given the knowledge to give birth without plans and purpose, quoting Hadith that the prophet said we should give birth to many children so that he can be proud of them during yaomal kiyama

2. This people believe this is the best way to practice Islam and in their own eyes, they are better than all other people and Paradise is specially made for them

3. They quote the Hadith that Allah provides food to humans and thus no matter how many they give birth to, Allah would feed them.

For many years, this people wallow in ignorance and wrong Islamic lectures by their sheikhs and whatever. It will take many years to reshape their minds.
They need total brain formatting, and replacement, if not, if you solve today's problem of child marriage and almajiris, some other group of idiots will do the same tomorrow.
Northerners are simply practicing what they have been wrongfully taught by some past Islamic leaders