Trials of the Almajiris vs the Northern Governors
ADDRESS TO THE COURT OF THE PEOPLE’S FACEBOOK PALIARMENT (PFP)
GENTLEMEN of the Facebook Parliaments, I first of all apologies for my brief absents from this very writers forum for too long a time and at the same time I will be presenting to your body of assemblies, a case of social cum criminal negligence and incalculable disasters by the name ALMAJIRI that is about to happened before our very eyes if not well address in time:
I regard this as one of the most important cases that I will be submitting for public scrutiny and evaluation in resent time. It is not really a case that involves property ownership, pension fund stealing, armed robbing and kidnaping or PDP governors forum power tussling , it is one that involves the liberty of every man. It involves the freedom and the future security for me and you, it involves the right for social equality for every of citizen of our beloved nation, it involves how we can now arrest this very encoded programed poverty cum violence here in north and now sliding down to the south which was created and encourage by our pass Rock leaders just because of their selfish mind set of continuous ascendance of the political space against the general freedom and participation of every other Nigeria through this very calculated and manipulated army of poverty riddled neglected and misinform youths, this is on how we can promote intellectual simulations of every citizen of Nigeria and for the open understanding of the sufferings of these bamboozled impoverished Alamajiris and their negative repercussions to our national security if allowed unchecked.
The question to be tried by you, the Facebook parliamentarians nobs, is whether the Alamajiris should have the rights for the basic needs of life such as shelter, food , clothing as well as proper educations that will help them in expressing their honest thought which can only be freely achieved through good sound educations that will make them objectives instead of them remaining subjective to the wishes and distort teachings of the semi illiterate mallams over issues that defines their destiny and life decisions, and also whether the Rock governors should as well be hold responsible for neglecting the security risk pose by continuous existence of Alamajiri class system in their states and our nation as a whole.
Although some friends may want to argued me that almajiri is system of education is of its own and should be allow some space to exist, yet I refuse to buy into this very argument cause the major reasons for education is to make one objective and productive in a society, of which almajiri system, of today has failed woefully to address on both ways rather it have become retrogressive for our national security and collective interest.
My toffs; let first look further into the Almajiri system of education, its pre-history and to see to the major factors that still prolong its existence in our today system.
Almajiri as it stands, is a word borrowed from Arabic for someone who leaves his home in search of knowledge in the Islamic religion, In this very system male children are sent to faraway places to acquire Islamic education at the tender ages of between four and nine years with parental guides. This system of Islamic education has been in existence since the inception of Islam in Northern Nigeria in the 11th century AD. In the past, the host communities catered for all the needs of the almajirai and their Mallams. However, today, especially in northern Nigeria the almajiri are left to their own devices to cater for themselves and now indoctrinated into a life of poverty and violence. Without any formal system to take care of them, these kids end up on the streets as beggars.
As a result, the word “Almajiri” has come to stand for street-children. As street-children without any form of parental care, they easily fall under the sway of any one who is willing to “provide” for them. This is how the Almajiris are now turning into instruments of sectarian violence, biddable pawns in the hands of politicians and mischief-makers .The impression has taken hold that the elites were tolerating this army of mendicant urchins, if not remote-controlled, as a useful addition to its arsenal for political wars.
The major factors encourages almajiris are:
· Government negligence: By not making much effort to reform, regulate or incorporate the system into the mainstream educational system. All these have helped to perpetuate the system.
· cultural structures of the people and Rock people´s feudalism: By the act of over empowering of the aristocratic and upper super class of the Rock people at the very expense of the poor dweller which penury are the natural condition of these pitiable class where the economic-skills of survival can only be transmitted from parent to child, where one can only take after his own father. This was the case in the north, the noble learned the ways of nobility, and the peasant learned the trade of their peasant-father. This ensured that children of farmers, gardeners, and beggars could only end up as farmworkers, gardeners, beggars and bumpkin from one generation to the next. They could not aspire to become teachers, doctors, engineers, lawyers or professors; because their parents could not communicate those skills to them and now psychologically forced to believe that, they can never be better than their fathers can. This system has kept both classes apart for centuries until this very day.
· socio-economic motives: The Mallams also derived direct economic benefits from the almajirai by taking part of what the latter obtained from begging and performance of other menial jobs and also the host communities whom as well enjoy their services because they provides cheap and often free labour for them.
· politics: for the main fact the senate president David Mark challenged the Rock governors openly to urgently ban the Almajiri system that has seen millions of children abandoned by their parents roaming the streets of the states in multitude shows clear case political in-responsibilities and counterproductive by these politicians, it was encouraged by the political class as a political means without considering its political ends.
· Poverty and family compositions: such as polygamy and the extended family system and having more male children in a family are serious strong determinants , children of almajiri system are found to be the children of the poor peasantry and other low-income earning strata. The fact that most of the almajirai were young age are strong evidence that they were sent to such schools before they reached the age of reasoning and are indoctrinated to accept the almajiri system of surviving.
The Consequence and end product of not addressing the Almajiri problems for now, will only throw us into more anarchy, lawlessness ,rebellion, mobocracy and more harams, a crime free society can only be achieve when the majority of the masses have been lifted up through quality education that will empowers the poor and brings hope to the oppressed ,education that will turn the “Almajiri” masses into a population of stake-holders .An education system that is capable to co-exist with other forms of education ,as have been proved by the Yoruba Muslims of South-Western Nigeria and also through the introduction of vocational skills acquisition programmes to these class of people. Resistance to “Western” education is not about religion; it is about the manipulation of an ignorant population by the Rock feudalists.
This system of segregation must be stopped now, be remodelled and integrated into our educational system.
The people of the Rock must put their heads together, through their Rocky Governors Forum, to tackle this phenomenon. The solution may not be a one shot solution, but a gradual one. The private sector should be encouraged to set up Islamiyya primary and secondary schools to complement the efforts of the various tiers of governments. logics and realities as my reasons |
It is obvious that the Almajiri only means of substance is through begging and other provisions avail them by the semi middle class people of their host communities and with the continuous global economic meltdown which are now a reality, these very middle class with little means of substances and incomes may not have enough in the nearest future to provide for these army of Almajiris as usual and because man must survive as nature advocates , the Almajiris will have no options than to take laws into hands in order to survive , so earlier we start to be projective and plans for these neglected army, then the more better our future can be secured.
For these greater reasons, there can be no case of greater importance for me to submit to this very open parliament now than for me to make case for the alamajiris and I sees no reasons why our Rock tenants of today cannot be found guilty and blameable as part of this conspiracy of holding down some certain class people in name of Almajiri in this very twenty first century, it is a pure act for casus belli which the Almajiri are left with no choice.
Here I rest my case, my nobs.
This intend to be a satirical dramatized presentations for every open minded individual, which emanate as a result of the conflict of mind in my very search for a better answers to the threats pose to our national security by these set of over long neglected people if not addressed in time.
THE TRIALS CONTINOUE NEXT WEEK; WITH MY FURTHER PRESENTATIONS INLINE WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND CHILD’S RIGHT ACT FOR ALL THE ALMAJIRIS
THANKS AND REMAIN BLESSED AS YOU FOLLOW MY DRAMA
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