Adamu Adamu, minister of education, says the Almajiri
schools programme of former President Goodluck Jonathan failed because it was
poorly implemented.
The minister spoke on Thursday at the ministerial briefing
held at the state house, Abuja.
The former president had, in February, said he embarked on
the programme to infuse the western education curriculum into the Islamic
education system so as to make the pupils more employable and to curb
insecurity.
The education minister however said the initiative was not
properly run.
“I think the
conception of Almajiri schools and how to run them were not properly done by
the government we inherited. But I know right now they are being incorporated
into our schools,” he said.
“As I told you, there are now about six million
out-of-school children, probably some of them who are trooping here (Abuja),
but certainly there should be government policy to stop the movement of
Almajiri or Almajirai, as they’re called in Hausa. A provision should be made
for instructing them wherever they are.”
According to the minister, some northern governors are
“destroying” education at the primary school level.
“The problem we have
in nomadic education is like the problem I had when I came with my journalistic
exuberance into government. I believed an emergency will be declared,” he said.
“The way our primary schools are… and I would like to say
this about governors, especially in the northern states. It is as if they are
looking for power to destroy education at the primary school level. Except for
a few.
“I don’t think there’s any governor who has any good story
to say about primary education and nomadic education, the federal government is
only making intervention.
“So unless we have full cooperation from the states, I think
achieving the objectives of nomadic education will take a long time to come. I
hope states will change their attitude.”
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