Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has expressed worry over the influx of Almajiri children in the state, while explaining that why he thinks the North will continue to live with the Almajiri menace for a very long time.
Ganduje said the governments of the northern states are not serious about legislation, hence the influx of the Almajiri children into the state.
He said the lack of collective legislation among the states made it impossible to control the influx and also frustrated evacuation of the Almajiri children back to their various states.
The Governor made this disclosure during an interaction with newsmen in Kano recently.
He said, ‘Almajiri is a real and big problem. What we anticipated was a decision by the Northern states government to have same legislation for the prevention of the movement of school-age children from one state to another. We have not succeeded in that aspect. Kano being a commercial nerve centre, we have children from all over the northern part of the country and others like Niger Republic and Chad.
‘Sometimes, some of the Almajiri children evacuated to their respective states come back even before our officials return back. Because the corresponding states have not taken the issue serious as we have done. So it is an issue that we have to go back to the drawing board,’ Ganduje said.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK