Kano State Government disclosed
it has completed arrangements to
evacuate all Almajiri to their states of origin.
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje
of Kano disclosed this on Sunday when he received a situation report from
Taskforce and COVID -19 fundraising committees at the Government House in Kano.
Ganduje said that the
state government had set up a high-powered Almajiri committee under the
leadership of commissioner for local government, Alhaji Murtala Garo. “We
closed all schools in the state to curb the spread of the pandemic but we found
out that the existence of Almajiri schools is constituting a stumbling block.
He said that the state
government had designed a programme where three categories of Almajiri would be
taken care of. The governor said that the first category from neighbouring
states of Bauchi, Katsina, Jigawa,
Kaduna states, and Niger Republic would be evacuated to their states with the
second category of Almajiri who were indigenes would be enrolled in their
neighbourhood conventional schools.
The governor also
warned that the state government would charge parents who resisted the
initiative to court while the third category who are sleeping on the street,
markets and under the bridge, will be taken to boarding schools where they will
be provided with uniform and feeding.
