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Almajiri: ACF supports FG’s plan to overhaul system

Ismaila Sanni
Ismaila Sanni
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The northern socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has expressed its support for the decision of the Federal Government to overhaul the Almajiri system.

Almajiri is the Quranic learning system associated with begging on economic and religious grounds peculiar to some Northern states in the country.

The Federal Government has, in its bid to tackle the problems of insecurity, expressed its decision to overhaul the system.

This, according to the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, was because some of the students ended up becoming criminals, drug addicts and willing tools in the hands of those who had very dangerous intentions.

ACF in its reaction to the decision of the government expressed support.

According to the spokesman of the ACF, Mohammed Ibrahim, the Islamic doctrine of learning for out of school children had been misconstrued.

His words:  “There is a misrepresentation of the concept in the Islamic doctrine of learning. Almajiri means, going to Islamic schools to learn the reading of the Holy Quran and its teachings for moral economic and social benefit of the child.

“We associate ourselves with Buhari’s concern on the need for the nation to overhaul the Almajiri system of school that will provide free and compulsory education across the country.

“The children we see begging in the streets are in the real sense not Almajiris, but children abandoned by their parents. That is why ACF agrees with President Buhari that it is indeed a crime for parents to keep their children out of school in this 21st century under any guise.

”Furthermore, the President’s appeal to state governments to provide free, compulsory and universal basic education for every child of primary and junior secondary school age could not be more appropriate as it is constitutional responsibility of governments to provide education to the citizens as means of empowerment in a competitive environment.

“ACF, therefore, urges the state governments to heed to President Buhari’s appeal and appropriate funds needed for improved volume and quality of education across the country leading to reduction in inequality among the citizens.”

 

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