The Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, on Saturday described the former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Almajiri school initiative as a poorly executed and wrong policy which was at variance with modern realities.
Ganduje said this in an interview with reporters in Abuja.
He explained that the former administration was ill-advised to pursue a policy which inadvertently helped to perpetuate the stigmatisation of Aljamiri children.
According to him, the Aljamiri school system is limited in scope and only able to absorb an insignificant number of pupils who are likely to have bigger problems integrating into the larger society.
To address this challenge, Ganduje said his administration had put in place strategies to fully integrate the Almajiri schools’ pupils into the normal school system.
The governor, who admitted that his state accounted for the largest number of Almajiri children, revealed that he had written President Muhammadu Buhari about the matter.
He said in the letter, he articulated the challenges, his plans and possible areas of partnership with the Federal Government.
Ganduje said, “The last Federal Government introduced the Almajiri schools but the school is not well articulated, it is a wrong policy.
“For example in my village, we have this school with only 50 students and in Kano, we have over 3 million Almajiris and the number of Almajiri is almost a problem to the number of schoolchildren so, the issue is not creating a school.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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But your ApC one chance people has put a lot of successful programmes and projects in place. Akwuya!
ReplyDeleteMind you: it was sultan of sokoto you initiated the plan for goodluck. If he had not obeyed, it would have been another story.
ReplyDeleteDo i blame you? i blame Jonathan who uses all his time and resources for the northerners without doing anything in south south
ReplyDeleteTHE PRESENT GOVERNOR OF KANO WAS THE DEPUTY IN THE LAST DISPENSATION. HE SUPERVISES ALL THE ALMAJIRI PROGRAMMES FROM INCEPTION, YET HE COMES OUT NOW TO CRITICIZE THE PROGRAMME. MOST OUR LEADERS ARE COWARD.
ReplyDeletewhat have you done for your state,Kano state since you assumed as their governor?INGRATES,Akuya!
ReplyDeleteYou said coward .he a coward indeed.you know 90% of them are novis they like baby they cannot diffentiate good from bad irrespective what you do to them.ls the reason they kill thierself in the name of boko haram.
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