Kaduna government to integrate Almajiris into school system
Following the challenges of social menace posed by the Almajiris in Kaduna State, the government has resolved integrate them into the school system to minimize their burden on the society.They are mostly found on major streets and roads begging for alms from motorists and passersby, while in some cases are also involved in crime.
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Professor Andrew Nok, who spoke yesterday on how the state government would resolve the social menace posed by the Almajiris, said they would be taken away from the streets and integrated in the school system.
Professor Nok said: “You do know that the bill with regards to compulsory education has been passed in the state and its implementation will commence in September, and you do know that we have free junior and secondary schools. This implies that no one has the reason to say that he never had a chance to go to school. As for the Almajiri system, we are going to completely get them integrated into the conventional education that we have in the State.
“Yes, we are still managing the Almajiri schools. Even those ones in the boarding, I can remember that with the coordinator, we signed a numbers of forms with regards to their feeding. So, we are still handling the Almajiri schools. What we want to say is that we intend having them completely integrated into the number of schools we have in the state.”
The Education Commissioner argued: “The fact that government is going to offer free education both for primary schools and junior secondary schools…I think largely, the social issues would largely must have been handled by the time that they are fully integrated”.
“With regards to the Almajiri education, we are working on a document in conjunction with the Ministry of Women Affairs, along with some stakeholders, and the document is before the Council and in a fortnight from now we would be able to discuss it concretely. And we will deplore the resolution to the extent that our children have the best out of education”.
Nok who also spoke on the school feeding project of the State Government explained that both the Almajiris and other children are all expected to benefit from it, pointing out that there was never a time the government abandoned the school feeding programme.
He said: “The school feeding has not been suspended. We are still on our school-feeding programme. Each week, especially on Wednesdays, we have education integrated committee meetings and usually, we take stock of all that must have transpired and the problems that are being faced”.
We take reports from all the secretaries in the 23 local governments. Yes, there are hiccups sometimes, here and there, but we try to deploy all the mechanisms that we need in mitigating some of the problems. What we intend to do, the next feeding session, we are starting completely afresh and we would advertise the forms and they would be available all over, both in the primary schools and we will capture all details of the vendors.”
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