Governor Reveals, ‘I Was An Almajiri’

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State who has taken revolutionary steps to reform the almajiri system of street begging in his state has revealed that he was once an almajiri.

The governor who has issued an executive order prescribing a 10 year jail term for teachers and parents who violate the order.

The governor, however, admitted that the reform of the almajiri system would be made to ensure that children who receive Islamic education are not subjected to childhood begging.

The governor who spoke in an interview with Channels Television on Monday morning said the state has just over 60,000 Almajiri.

“I was an almajiri myself,” the governor who was partly schooled in the United States and lived and worked there for several years told his shocked interviewers.

“We were going to school in the morning and go thereafter go to Islamic school,” the governor said as he observed that today’s system was different.

“The almijari we have today are those who shy away from education. Some people give birth to 16 children and takes them to another state does not drop any provision for them,” he observed.

He, however, observed that a number of the Almajiri teachers have been won over into his reforms saying:

“We invited all the teachers and told them our ideas and they said that they were also worried about it.”

So far, Kaduna, Kano, and Nasarawa States have moved against the Almajiri system of street begging by Islamic students.

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