F.G Set To Disband Almajiri Group,Others 

The Federal Government has disclosed plans to proscribe Almajiri and other  groups , noting that they are becoming a problem to the society.

The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno who disclosed this on Thursday, said that some of the group like the Almajiri  would be proscribed by the Federal Government.

Monguno,while briefing State House correspondents at the end of NEC meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa  Abuja,said that education is every child’s right.

Monguno also pointed out that drivers of insecurity in the country included unemployment, poverty and increasing population, pointing out “it is very important to proscribed certain groups ultimately running around under the guise of maybe getting some kind of education that is not really formal and then begin to cause a lot of problems for society.”

He said “I also made suggestions regarding the way forward which include, employment creation and reduction of poverty, and being the culture of impunity and looking at stabilizing certain areas of the country by giving rise to affordable education.

“This is very important because in most parts of the country we have a lot of children roaming around without any formal education. And as the President has mentioned earlier when he was inaugurating the national economic council, we need to make education compulsory and free for every child in the country.

“Because the problem we face today are rooted in the fact that a lot of people who have been denied the opportunity basically the opportunity to get formal education end up over the years, there is accumulation of large mass of human beings who end up becoming criminals, drug addicts and so on and so forth.

“And they end up becoming tools to be used by elements in the wider society who have very dangerous intentions.

Speaking further on the Amajiri groups, he said “The group I spoke about on illiteracy is the Almajiri. Ultimately, government will have to proscribe the Almajiri phenomena, because we cannot continue to have street urchins, children roaming around, only for them in a couple of years, or decades to become a problem to society.

Almajiri is a system of Islamic education practiced in northern Nigeria.