₦airaland Forum

Kobojunkie:
There are different reasons why parents choose to do this. I was sent to a boarding school at age 11 myself, because I wanted to have the experience. My parents sent me there while maintaining full responsibility for me and my developmental education, feeding, housing, etc. And my being at the boarding school during the school term was a temporary arrangement — approximately 8 months out of each year(in the absence of sickness-related breaks.

2. Sending children to boarding schools is not the issue here. Stop trying so hard to ignore the real issue, which is the presence of parents in the lives of children, no matter where they are.

> Same way the parents of those almajeris had their reasons for sending them for almajeranchi.
> Same way you returned home during holidays, those almajeris do visit home at set times. And their parents too do visit.
> Same way you finally returned home after your O'level, those almajeris do return home, except for those whose will choose to stay back and start up something for themselves. I knew an almajeri in my area back in the days in Kano. He didn't return home. He began the of business firewood untill he became very established. He later married a neighbour of ours.
> Lastly, I'm not trying hard to ignore the real issue. I have my reservation against the almajeri system and that is the fact that the parents ain't doing their utmost in fending for their children. I condemn their actions.

Kobojunkie:
By education, I was in no way referring to the formal/religious education they get from the mallam at the Almajiri school.

2. Your post, and the reality of things out there, is all too obvious that these children are left to fend for themselves the vast majority of their days. Serving them occasionally means that cannot satisfy them means absolutely nothing in this.

I cannot deny the salient point you raised in your 2nd paragraph. It is very obvious that the almajeris are not well fed, and it has become a major reason why they are easily recruited to flag off crisis.

GHoJes:
Which useless boarding schools are you talking about? what are they send to learn in such boarding schools? the Koran they could easily learn from islamiyya in every nooks of their parents' environment? Or what are you yapping about? almajeris in Abuja come from different parts of the north and keeping begging till some are lucky to grow into shoe making and likes while the rest continue begging and making more families of beggars as they grow or migrate to other parts of the country still begging not to mention many lost their lives before adulthood.

How many years of their existence do they spend with their parents other than the less than 5yrs from birth before they are tossed into a world where they fend for themselves from childhood. Be fooling yourself there?

Sir, you can actually make your point without insults or throwing jibes and tantrums I believe.
Now let's go by your logic: Can you tell us why parents send their children to boarding schools far away from home when they can easily enroll them in schools very close to the house? Are you suggesting that parents who subscribe to the boarding school system are foolish?

Kobojunkie:
1. We could assume that the stats provided in the OP somewhat reflect this alfa system— a non-prevalent system in South Western Nigeria, by the way —, but surely the report on the Northern states DOES NOT reflect the prevalent— 10s of millions are currently on the streets both in Northern and Southern Nigeria — Almajiri subscription in the North.

2. Children literally responsible for their own education, developmental needs, and feeding are abandoned children.

Fear of losing the one shelter available to them is palpable from your submission. Imagine having to live as a young person with such evident fears. If you have ever been homeless as an adult, you would understand why the anxiety of losing the comfort of shelter is reason enough why many homeless people plan their lives around their shelter.

The almajeris are not responsible for their education par say. Their parents enrolled them. Got them an iron boxes with clothes. They have roofs over their heads. I forgot to add, the Mallams do serve them food just that they are not always satisfied with the portions coming from the Mallams, so they had to beg.

Kobojunkie:
The report instead claims that this is about children living with their parents.

Almajiris, according to you, are not children living with their parents but children whose parents offshored their responsibilities as parents to beggar-pimps as part of a system that literally has them abandoned to fend for themselves. That is not a system of children living with parents. Their having a father and mother somewhere DOES NOT negate the fact that these are, in fact, abandoned children we are talking of here, children who literally live like they have no mother or father in the picture.

You didn't understand me sir. I never said their parents pushed them away in order to avoid parental responsibilities. Rather, they were sent to go learn of their religious beliefs and doctrines.

Please kindly answer this question: Is it right to conclude that a child has no parents or is a product of a broken home simply because he/she is sent far away from home to go learn?

GHoJes:
How is a home existing if the most vulnerables of the home being the children are out in cold and danger?

These almajeris have polygamous fathers that barely visit their mothers twice in a year as he has to go round the various other wives depending on his favourites.

Is it not more logical for you to call people who grew up with full support of one parent very present in their lives as coming from a existing home than one with both parents married on paper without responsibilities of being married or a parent. How is a home the children never get to be in even existing to such children?

Well, I do not know how you came about the conclusion in your paragraph 2 but I will respect your opinion. However, in all my years in the north, I have neither seen or heard of where an Hausa man visits his wife and children only twice a year.

Kobojunkie:
So, these homeless children in northern states have parents at home who allow them to live homeless for extended periods?

2. Do parents visit children abandoned on the streets in many of the Northern states? We don't seem to be talking here of the same thing.

I will answer your questions sir.

1. Yes they have parents at home.
If you noticed, the Yoruba tribe also do send their children on this same religious study. They send their children to go learn under a teacher known as Alfa. Not all children who are learning under an Alfa are from the host community. Some of them are from other towns, cities or states just like the Almajeris. The only difference is that the Alfas unlike the Mallams do not subscribe to street begging. Street begging has nothing to do with the religion in question. Street begging is a thing of choice.

2. Those children are not abandoned on the street. They're all camped in the homes of their respective Mallams. When I was in Kano, the Mallams do take roll call and this explains why an almajeri will avoid anything that will make him miss either the morning or evening recitation. Missing any or both will attract severe punishment. They go out to beg for food after the morning recitation and must return before the afternoon recitation. It is after the afternoon recitation that they're permitted to go out again to beg for food. They must return home before bed time. And lastly, yes their parents or family do visit them at the homes of their Mallams.

Kobojunkie:
So, the boarding schools pi_mp these children out every day while the parents of these kids get to be relieved of the responsibility of caring for them during that period? How is this any better than the children literally being orphaned?

Sir, the argument here is whether they're from existing homes or not. And by existing home I mean father and mother staying married together.
I'm not in support of parents who not fending for their children's needs whom they sent on Almajeranchi.

Iamzik:
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And where did they hide the almajiris? North should have the highest percentage here

Sir, that they are Almajeris doesn't erase the fact they are from existing homes. They very much have their parents, except in some cases where a parent or both parents have passed on. They only went on a study and will return home when they're done. They do visit home and their parents do visit them at set times.

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Kudos fire.

All the almajiris roaming the streets and suffering untold degradation in the hands of alfas and mallams are all from intact homes.

Wonderment!

Yes sir they are from homes.
I'm a Christian but I know a few things about the Almajeri system.

Kobojunkie:
Where do the 10s of millions of Almajiris come from then? Are you telling us that all those kids live with their parents?

Sir, yes. Almajeris live with their parents/family.
Almajeranchi is synonymous with the boarding school system where parents send their children to go learn far away from home, and then return during holidays. Almajeris do go home at set times to visit their families. I know this because I grew up in Kano and I had many of them as playmates.

An average Nigerian sees every other person but his oppressors as threat. He would rather fight his liberator than challenge his oppressors.

dammyz101:
So where do almagiris come from?

Almajeris are from homes. They're not products of broken marriages or single motherhood. Almajeranchi is a religious system particular to Islam. I had a friend & neighbour many years ago in Kano, who was sent on Almajeranchi by his father because he was very stubborn. He ran back home in no distant time

This means that the north Keeps and maintains marriages better than any other region in Nigeria. Kudos to the Arewa on this one.

Did the terrorists who invaded our country and began killing our citizens respected our sovereignty?

My candid appeal to Keyamo on his response to Trump is that since he claims he is a govt officials ,as a christian and that the genocide is not lobsided , Please let Him strike a deal with Nigeria now"that from henceforth his household and that of Tinubu as well as other acclaimed officials should as a matter of urgency Enquiry be Relocated to Benue, Plateau,Zamfara,Gone ,Borno,Southern Kaduna etc and Reside there without Security Protection till after 2027 election, meanwhile before they Relocate they should give Nigeria the Statistics of the number of family members they've volunteer to use for this Challenge"but this CHALLENGE shouldn't deter Trump and US from taking action earlier uphold.[/quote]I found this hilarious

I think say Yoruba people say Tinubu na god of gods?

Dem no dey tell blind man say rain dey fall

Those of us in support of the US in assisting to end the incessant killings in Nigeria are the true lovers of Nigeria.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be dancing joyfully in his cell in Kuje prison on hearing this news.

Only terrorists, terrorist sympathisers, Islamic extremists who are equivalent to terrorists, devil incarnates, are in support of the wanton killing going on in Nigeria.

The greatest resource any nation can be boastful of is 'human resource' and not mineral/natural resources par say. So, anyone coming here to tell us that the US should not be allowed into Nigeria because they're coming for our natural resources not minding the alarming rate at which people (human resource) are been murdered each passing of the day falls in the category of people mentioned in paragraph 2 above.

Tinubu must be kicked out come 2027 because he has no solution to Nigeria's problems.

badaru911:
.... Not new, it happens to every Nigerian president.... You have been a senator since, you never say anything but now. I bet because they are pinching your balls..

This is not true sir. Ndume condemned some negative moves by Buhari's govt.

The bridge must collapse tonight.
I'm a Qarabag FK fan tonight

I never type finish Qarabag don pipe in another goal

Freshandfitpod:
This comment will surely be deleted

Okay sir...

Can you all see how useless the FGN is?
The APC can never take responsibility for its action. It must blame another for its failure. They still want to pin this on Igbos - IPOB.

China is mad

Not enough original content
Please take a moment to write a quality post with at least 40 characters.
This will make the forum more interesting for everyone.

Delusion of grandeur . That's all I can say on this.

loffyloffy:
If you are smart and observant, you would have been able to recall that the budget includes a deficit element that is not covered by revenue.

But as school sat failed wey you be, it will be too much to remind you of this fact.

Meeting his revenue budget means he have enough money to pay back short term loans that was within the prohected revenue.

In the same budget, there is deficit, which means he will have to borrow to cover that.

If at tge end of the day his revenue superceded expectation, he can use it to boast his external reserve by savibg it, which the govt is doing right now, or he could use it to repay loans, which they are not doing.

But assuming that they wont have to borrow because they have meet their revenue target is babyish economics.

> With all due respect sir, your 4th paragraph contradicts your 3rd paragraph, but I stand to be corrected with facts.

> What exactly do you think is responsible for the deficit nature of our national budget?

> We keep borrowing without producing. Can you educate us what exactly Tinubu is using these borrowed monies for?

> Please kindly explain to us what Tinubu meant by 'I have met my revenue target'.

We are waiting!

Thank you sir!

Meedon:
I'm mimicking his supporters my good sir.

I thought as much

babydioku:
Michael really dealt with una

No be small

Data boys are now attempting to do what the Table shaker himself could not do in months. That is delusion of grandeur

What Reno Omokri cannot uncover has no cover to uncover it. This is an APC reportage and it should be trashed

The governor who truly worked to see an end to the incessant killings in southern Kaduna was Ahmed Makarfi. He took bold steps as an attempt to end Christian - Muslim unrest in the state. He was even nicknamed 'Matthew' because of his alliance with the southern Kaduna Christians.

Honestly, things have really fallen apart in this country.

I remember just like yesterday.

The DSS tried to coward him to retract his statement but he was very resilient.

It wasn't long he made that weighty and shocking revelation that he died. I believe that man was murdered.

The islamic extremists have a doctrine called Taqiyya, which when translated means Deceit or Deception in a simple word. That been said, the countering of the cacophony of voices speaking against christian genocide in Nigeria is Taqiyya. They want to deceive the world with lies and more lies. But like I use to tell them, their Taqiyya can never work on me because I know better. I have seen and witnessed religious crisis first hand growing up as a young boy in Kano State. My second cousin was murdered by Boko Haram years ago in Kano while attending a church service on a Sunday morning 😭

Am I been a religious bigot right now? Of course not. I have Muslims in my family too. But mind you, they ain't extremists.

Dear concerned Nairalanders, let no one deceive you. There is a religious genocide in Nigeria, and it is against Christianity.