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Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by adenigga(m): 1:10pm On Dec 26, 2022
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The Executive Director of the Centre for Human Resource Development and Empowerment Initiative Kaduna, Dr Mohammed Ali, has said the North does not need an almajiri commission, but a total ban on the almajiri practice.

He said this while receiving representatives from the Ayana Centre for Almajiri Development and Empowerment Initiative during a visit to his office on Sunday in Kaduna.

The bill to establish the commission to tackle almajiri and other out-of-school children scaled second reading in the House of Representatives on November 23.

The children beggars, popularly known as almajiri, are mainly students of the Qur’anic schools, better known as ‘tsangaya’ who are given to Islamic teachers by their parents for the purposes of learning the Qur’an.


The teachers in turn, take them away from their homes to distant places without any provision for their boarding, feeding and even clothing by their parents, where they end up resorting to begging to make ends meet.

Ali explained that street begging is a social, economic and environmental menace highly visible in urban centres all over Kaduna State, with prevalence in the northern part of the state.

He lamented that the current situation was worrisome because not only adult members of the population engaged in such acts, but even the underaged children.


“Beggars pervade public places like markets, motor parks, religious centres, residential neighbourhood, ceremonial places and worse still, inside commercial buses.

“Begging, no doubt, is a downgraded act which leads to image tarnishing and loss of prestige of anyone engaging in it,” he said.

Ali also lamented that some scholars, media practitioners and the general public had variously linked begging with Islam.

He noted that there was nothing Islamic about it, rather, a by-product of laziness, mental dependence and oppressive consciousness of those that engaged in it.

“Islam is both an intellectual tradition and a social movement and has provided principles and modalities by which one can earn a living but not through begging,” he stressed.

“There is no relationship that exists between Islam and begging. The problem of begging in Kaduna State, like in other states of northern Nigeria, is rooted in the socio-cultural and socio-economic realities in the country.


“To ban the practice of begging, government must develop the moral courage to act and to also disabuse the minds of many Nigerians who think or believe that Islam approves of begging,” Ali said.

Ali advised that Muslims must be educated to understand that crackdown on street begging is not attempt to obliterate any aspect of Islamic culture or norms.

He noted that it was rather to make the Muslim public less susceptible to mischief makers who were bent on tarnishing the image of Islam and Muslims in the name of begging or other obscene behaviours observed in their conducts.

He further stressed that the almajiri system as currently practised, is out-dated and should therefore be stopped.

“Parents must be ready to shoulder the responsibility of their children because that is what qualifies them as such.

“Government should on its own part, not hesitate to replace the migrant system of learning the Qur’an with a more formal, more vibrant, more pragmatic and more relevant Islamiyya system like the Tahfizul Qur’an model. Such system should be integrated into the UBE programme of the state,” he said

Furthermore, the executive director stated that begging had its roots in the culture which was inconsistent with the teachings of Islam.

He said on the other hand, that the Nigerian society encouraged too much dependence, which made begging to thrive.


He therefore said attitudinal change was required to change the orientation.

“To this end, government is advised to ensure that the SURE-P programme is judiciously handled in order to break the
cycle of poverty that has ravaged most citizens in the state.

“If properly handled, it has the potential to end capability poverty; which refers to people not being able to be sheltered, nourished, educated or supported.

“Lack of support mostly results from individuated or collapsed homes. Here again, government is advised to liaise with Jamaatu Nasril Islam and the Sharia Courts to check unrestricted or frivolous divorce cases. Such cases have negative impacts on the larger society,” the executive director added.

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Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by SadiqBabaSani: 2:25pm On Dec 26, 2022
Wait for it, they will soon call for his head
Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by LordviccoDaGuru(m): 2:26pm On Dec 26, 2022
Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by Betanaija42moro: 2:31pm On Dec 26, 2022
Commission for almajiri.

Are we celebrating this almajiri system.

We really need Peter Obi at this point

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Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by LordviccoDaGuru(m): 2:36pm On Dec 26, 2022
Betanaija42moro:
Commission for almajiri.

Are we celebrating this almajiri system.

We really need Peter Obi at this point

The last thing that will never happen in Nigeria is for pandemic Obituary the GCE certificate f00L to rule Nigeria. Go and write it down

We Northerners have already set a dead trap for him. Screenshot this comment and keep it as a memory when it happens.

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Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by Betanaija42moro: 2:55pm On Dec 26, 2022
LordviccoDaGuru:


The last thing that will never happen in Nigeria is for pandemic Obituary the GCE certificate f00L to rule Nigeria. Go and write it down

We Northerners have already set a dead trap for him. Screenshot this comment and keep it as a memory when it happens.

I know you're not from the North.
But good luck with your almajiri system.

Backward mentality

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Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by Nobody: 3:14pm On Dec 26, 2022
If you ban almajiri how will foolanis be able to subjugate the Hausas and use them for their nefarious schemes? What do you think you're doing?
Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by baretalk: 3:33pm On Dec 26, 2022
Almajiris are raw recruits of Boko Haram and Iswap, Almajiri syndrome also spreads criminality across all states in Nigeria. Almajirism can destroy Nigeria.

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Re: Almajiri Should Be Banned, Commission Not Needed — Group by VTJN(m): 3:40pm On Dec 26, 2022
Naija my country

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