…Blasts Northern govs for treating Almajiri children with scorn
By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
Former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, yesterday, flayed northern governors over rejection of almajiri system.

According to him, VIPs in the north, at present, are products of the almajiri system.

Okorocha, who represents Imo West senatorial district in the Senate, spoke in an interview with BBC Hausa Service monitored in Kaduna.

He said the northern governors had been unfair in their dealings with the almajirai, who they described as urchins.

Okorocha said: “These children (almajirai) need help, educate them and give them jobs. Who knows, one of them could be a president some day.

“The governors and other rich individuals should help transform the almajiri system of Islamic education, instead of subjecting them to humiliation. Many of our prominent people now were once almajirai.’’

Okorocha said the system was not the problem but hunger and poverty, adding that almajiri children need love and care like other children in the society.

Origin of almajiri system

He said: “The system had its origin from the migration of Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

‘’When he migrated from Mecca, some people followed him in search of knowledge and they were catered for. They were not left hungry, they were fed.’

Okorocha reiterated that the abandoned children needed care, while the system should be reformed by all.

He added: “Some of us have excess that we don’t need, channel such towards enhancing the living standard of such children. They are our children.”

He said Okorocha Foundation had established schools in Kano, Yola, Zaria and Sokoto with the sole aim of providing education to the almajirai.

The northern governors had in the wake of outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria, expressed dismay over the almajiri system and had repatriated the children to their various states of origin for fear of the spread of the disease.

Rising from one of its meetings last month, the Northern Governors Forum, under the leadership of Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, resolved to put an end to the almajiri system and have the children sent to their states of origin for proper parental care.

Echoing the decision of the governors, Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, said it was a subject of deep deliberations of the governors in the region for the past 12 months.

“We’ve been looking for the ways and means to end this system because it has not worked for the children, it has not worked for Northern Nigeria and it has not worked for Nigeria. So, it has to end and this is the time,” he said.

He said his state had been expanding the capacities of schools in Kaduna with the hope of accommodating the subsequent integration of the children as the best alternative for them.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/many-northern-vipsre-products-of-almajiri-system-okorocha/

Okorocha Foundation had established schools in Kano, Yola, Zaria and Sokoto with the sole aim of providing education to the almajirai

Raw sympathy.

True but this table Okorocha is shaking ehen!

ZAWs:
Okorocha Foundation had established schools in Kano, Yola, Zaria and Sokoto with the sole aim of providing education to the almajirai

Raw sympathy.

are u bitter ..he did it very Good schools even b4 he enter politics....how old are u? Rochas has trained thousands of poor people...this records cannot be erased .....how many less previlage have u help....zero i guess

ZAWs:
Okorocha Foundation had established schools in Kano, Yola, Zaria and Sokoto with the sole aim of providing education to the almajirai

Raw sympathy.

What do you mean? Do you know how the fund was sourced? It is a foundation gadammit.

Loquacious Rochas Okorocha may have lived in Jos, speaks Hausa fluently and benefited financially from being a front to key Northern military officers who ruled Nigeria but that does not make him a subject matter specialist on Almajirinci. So saying that abolishing Almajiri system is wrong is pure clowning.

The truth is that Almajiri system has not offered Northern Nigeria much benefits other than turning children into confused and unskilled adults, drug addicts and of late, armed bandits.

If anything, one positive thing about this COVID-19 is the decision of Northern Governors to stop Almajiri.

Richas Okorocha should shut the F***k up and leave innocent children out of his useless politics to become president.

it's been a while Mr iberiberism, since oshiomole dealt with him he has been quiet ..... Back to the topic, I feel this Almajiri system is outdated for goodness sake this is the 21st century and you still have people encouraging children to roam about the streets begging and causing nuisance

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big TRASH loading.......

..... Just as most VIPs in Rivers and Bayelsa are products of the creek system. Okoroawusa has begun his presidential campaign...

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Good

One of the few good men from the East. Kenayo Okorocha

Been awhile I heard from this Okorocha. He doesn't talk much these days.