* Vows parents who give away children as almajiri ‘ll be
prosecuted
Kano State government has abolished the almajiri system in the
state, insisting that saying any parent who sends his child out as
almajiri would be prosecuted in court.
Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje announced this on
Wednesday, during the COVID- 19 press briefing at the Government
House in Kano.
“The state government cannot tolerate any almajiri system in the
state. All children must be in school,” he declared.
The governor, however, outlined a list of conditions that must
be met by those who are interested in operating almajiri system of
schools in the state
Ganduje stressed that the curriculum of such a school must
accommodate courses that are offered in the conventional system of
education, adding that the proprietor must also “make provision for
the children in terms of classroom accommodation, in terms of where
they would sleep and in terms of their feeding, so that the
children would not be going about begging.
“The system must also conform with the normal system of
education; there must be qualified teachers and there must be a
system of examination, evaluation and quality control,” he
stressed
“We assure the members of the public that Islamic education is
being taught in our schools and qualified teachers are being
employed,” said the governor.
He assured the current owners and teachers of lmajiri schools in
the state that they were not being rendered jobless , adding that
the state government is ready to employ any of them and was already
recruiting some of them into the state’s education system.
Meanwhile, the coordinator of the almajir programme in the
state, Alhaji Sule Garo, has said that the state government has so
far repatriated a total 1,172 almajirai to their states across the
North, saying that they returned 419 almajrai to Katinsa State, 584
to Jigawa State, 155 to Kaduna State, 38 to Bauchi State and 36 to
Gombe state.
Garo, who is also the Commissioner for Local Government, added
that the state had adequally received about 100 almajrai from
different parts of the North, namely 179 from Adamawa State , 220
from Nassarawa State, 96 from Gombe State and 18 from Katsina State
and 82 from Kaduna State, adding that the returnees were quarantine
for two weeks before they were reunited with the members of their
families.
He said the state government had so far handed over to their 733
Almajarai indigenes of Kano State following the end of their
custody in quarantine in the state
“Our health personnel have tested all the almajirai, most of
them were negative and those of them that were positive have taken
to isolation centres,” he stated.
He disclosed that the almajrai returned to the state from other
states were automatic candidates for admission into the state’s
almajiri boarding schools situated at Bunkure as soon as academic
activates resumed in the state.
* Vows parents who give away children as almajiri ‘ll be
prosecuted
Kano State government has abolished the almajiri system in the
state, insisting that saying any parent who sends his child out as
almajiri would be prosecuted in court.
Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje announced this on
Wednesday, during the COVID- 19 press briefing at the Government
House in Kano.
“The state government cannot tolerate any almajiri system in the
state. All children must be in school,” he declared.
The governor, however, outlined a list of conditions that must
be met by those who are interested in operating almajiri system of
schools in the state
Ganduje stressed that the curriculum of such a school must
accommodate courses that are offered in the conventional system of
education, adding that the proprietor must also “make provision for
the children in terms of classroom accommodation, in terms of where
they would sleep and in terms of their feeding, so that the
children would not be going about begging.
“The system must also conform with the normal system of
education; there must be qualified teachers and there must be a
system of examination, evaluation and quality control,” he
stressed
“We assure the members of the public that Islamic education is
being taught in our schools and qualified teachers are being
employed,” said the governor.
He assured the current owners and teachers of lmajiri schools in
the state that they were not being rendered jobless , adding that
the state government is ready to employ any of them and was already
recruiting some of them into the state’s education system.
Meanwhile, the coordinator of the almajir programme in the
state, Alhaji Sule Garo, has said that the state government has so
far repatriated a total 1,172 almajirai to their states across the
North, saying that they returned 419 almajrai to Katinsa State, 584
to Jigawa State, 155 to Kaduna State, 38 to Bauchi State and 36 to
Gombe state.
Garo, who is also the Commissioner for Local Government, added
that the state had adequally received about 100 almajrai from
different parts of the North, namely 179 from Adamawa State , 220
from Nassarawa State, 96 from Gombe State and 18 from Katsina State
and 82 from Kaduna State, adding that the returnees were quarantine
for two weeks before they were reunited with the members of their
families.
He said the state government had so far handed over to their 733
Almajarai indigenes of Kano State following the end of their
custody in quarantine in the state
“Our health personnel have tested all the almajirai, most of
them were negative and those of them that were positive have taken
to isolation centres,” he stated.
He disclosed that the almajrai returned to the state from other
states were automatic candidates for admission into the state’s
almajiri boarding schools situated at Bunkure as soon as academic
activates resumed in the state.