Alimajiri Ban: Ganduje Wants Foreign Money – Kano Council Of Ulama

By Supo Giwa

The Council of Ulama in Kano has dismissed Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s ban on street begging saying that it was an orchestrated move to get money from foreign interests or appease the foreign masters.

Chairman of the council Sheikh Ibrahim Khaheel at a news conference in Kano on Wednesday affirmed that the government action lacked tact as he said that the necessary things that needed to be done for the menace to be addressed had not been done.

“They are just doing it to appease their masters abroad, or get their money or some kind of noisemaking. Or they might have been accused of something from somewhere for which they simply organise a ceremony and that is all. That is our opinion,” Sheikh Khaheel said.

“The government is not serious and cannot  do it because it has not taken the right steps to it.

“The right steps to follow in banning street begging include first, the Quranic clerics involved have to be identified. Because there are street beggars who are Quranic students, there are beggars who are sent by their parents from the rural areas to come and be begging in the urban areas, there is also begging engaged in by some physically challenged individuals.

“All these forms of street beggars need to be identified and each one be addressed accordingly. But they have not done that.

“More so, you cannot stop begging in the state without joining hands with the neighbouring states” he stated.

“If you recall there was the case of a man who just sent three of his children to the city to be begging for sustenance because he wanted to place his new wife in the room they were occupying. You can see that these kids are not necessarily Almajiris or Quranic pupils.

“Therefore you need statistic of the real situation, know the total number of the Quranic teachers, the total number of the Quranic schools and their pupils, know exactly who the real Almajiris are first. You will then know their needs understand their problems and then proffer the right solutions. You can decide to cater for them or send them back to their homes. But you have not conducted all these.”

The chairman is himself an advocate of an end to street begging.

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