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.
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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
