The Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School
Programs, has adopted former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Tsangaya Almajiri
School System with some modifications to remove hundreds of out of school
children from the streets.
Speaking while flagging off the Al-Ummah Development
Foundation incorporation of 300 Almajiri Boys to formal school system in Kano,
the representative of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, and who is a House
of Reps member from Sokoto, Alhaji Balarabe Shehu Kakale, said they are
adopting the Tsangaya Almajiri system to curtail street begging and urchins.
The lawmaker worried that as it is now, there are over 20
million out of school children that need to be evacuated from the street and
taken to schools.
He said with the innovation of the AlUmmah Development
Foundation Almajiri incorporation into the formal education system with the
sharing to them two piers of uniforms, shoes and three square meals, soon
hundreds of them will be removed from the street.
The consultant to the program, Comrade Ibrahim Wayya, called
for declaration of state of emergency on education if the government wants to
rescue the sector.
Wayya added that they have identified three Tsangaya
Almajiri schools from three local government areas of Kano and they are
commencing the new system with 300 boys who will be accommodated and provided
with free meals.
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