The Northern Governors’ Forum had recently issued a statement where they observed that Almajiri children were exposed to the risk of contracting coronavirus and unanimously resolved to ban the almajiri system and also evacuate the children to their parents or states of origin.
The Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of Osun State, Prince Adeyanju Biniyo, had accused the northerners of “sneaking” into the state, threatening that the Osun Amotekun Corps has been mandated to arrest and deport the “strangers.” Chairman of the Presidential task Force for the Control of Coronavirus and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation , Boss Mustapha, who spoke on the deportations last Monday, in a veiled condemnation of the action of the state governments noted that most of the almajiris being deported were minors who needed people to be responsible for them.
According to the group, the almajiri phenomenon arose purely as a result of failure of governance. “These children are entitled to their constitutional right to free and compulsory primary and secondary education. Rather than carry out their constitutional duty of providing for the security and welfare of the people, northern state governors in particular have allowed almajiris roam the streets, exposing them to exploitation.
“The governors of the northern states claim that the deportation of the almajaris is to curb the spread of COVID-19 and enforcement of the lockdown orders in the states. On the contrary, the deportation from a state with COVID-19 cases such as Kano State without prior testing and isolation, portends grave risks in the spread of the virus across states,” HRAN added.
Imagine this... when we say, this is the way to go.... some people will be dragging you backward... what a confusion!
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Where someone freedom ends , that is where some one else's right start.. They should be deported to wherever state they come from. No other state shall be responsible for another state woes. We are in War health wise
This are kids, they need to be with their parents or in an orphanage home if there is none or to poor in their states.
Deportation of the Almajiris is a gd move. Their parents 're supposed 2b fished out n prosecuted for child abuse. Northern governors contributed 2d woes of ds practice by occasionally organizing marriages for nothern youth who can barely fend 4 themsefs let alone train up a child
It is pointless to intellectualize a simple problem: these are social undesirables being taken back to their families within their country. 2 centuries ago, they might have been taken somewhere in the Sahara desert and abandoned there.
How are we sure, they are Nigerians and not Nigeriens?
True. What if the citizen has no fixed address, neither business nor in gainful employment but begging for alms?
Best notion
In times of war most rights are automatically overridden by security realities , if not how can the whole lock down?
This is a war situation and you cannot abjudicate your parental resposibities
You people must be high on opium..