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Most Northern Leaders Were Almajiris \u2013 Okoroch
\nBy PRNigeria<\/strong>
\nThe immediate past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has said that most Northern leaders passed through the Almajiri System of Education.
\nHe however noted that the problem the North is facing right now is the bastardisation of Almajiri Learning into a begging venture.
\nOkorocha stated this while defending the Almajiri kids following the uproar recently generated by their repatriation from different states due to the coronavirus pandemic.
\nThe Igbo Senator and philanthropist maintained that begging was not part of the Islamic scripture.
\nSpeaking in Hausa language in an Interview with BBC and monitored by Arewa Agenda, Okarocha who is the current Senator representing Imo West, said Almajiri kids are normal children who deserve an open arm of the society.
\nThe former governor also submitted that an Almajiri kid can become a president of Nigeria in the future, hence the need for the government to give them deserving attention that will secure their future.
\nOkorocha recalled that the word \u2018Almajiri\u2019 is gotten from an Arabic word \u2018Almuhajir\u2019 which originated from the time of the Prophet Muhammad SAW when he migrated from Mekkah to Madina.
\n\u201cThey should rather be emancipated not deported to their States because taking them back to their States doesn\u2019t mean they will stop begging, being hungry or poor.
\nSo we need to join hands together, help the children to acquire sound education and not only education, get them something to do even if it means building a school for them in the farm.\u201d
\nHe called on government at all level and well to-do individuals to join hands and emancipate the children from the menace of street begging.
\n\u201cI know governments are pre-occupied with building roads, paying salaries and all but we still need to pay attention to the welfare of the poor before other things will follow.
\n“But if you give them shelter, give them jobs, they can feed themselves. If poverty is not fought from this angle especially in the North, we will have problem in this country.
\n“It is not the fault of this Children. It\u2019s God that created them and they were not fortunate to be born in a well to-do home.\u201d Arewa Agenda reported that the COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought the Almajiri discourse to the front burner, as Northern Governors, in recent times, started deporting children to their various States across the Regions in a bid to curb spread of the Coronavirus outbreak.
\nSome of the street kids searching for Islamic knowledge across the north have been infected by the deadly virus just as state governments scramble frantically to send them back to their respective states.
\nThe Northern Governors\u2019 Forum has insisted that the Almajiri system in the region must be banned.
\nThe governors disclosed this while discussing the region\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Almajiri, also known as Almajiranci or Almajirai is a system of Islamic education in northern Nigeria for the male gender seeking Islamic knowledge.
\nUnder the system, a boy is mandated to travel in search of knowledge and to develop himself spiritually and mentally for other endeavours.
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