Buhari not ready to ban Almajiri system yet

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has expressed that the plan to ban the Almajiri system of education will not be immediate.

The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, had announced that the government was planning to proscribe the educational system in a bid to curb insecurity.

The announcement had since generated reactions from Nigerians.

However, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, in a statement on Friday, said Buhari was not in a hurry to make decisions on Almajiri.

According to him, any necessary ban on Almajiri would follow due process and consultation with relevant authorities.

He said due consultations will be made with relevant agencies before any action is taken, warning that plans for massive arrest of parents are definitely are false.

This is in responses to earlier announcements by the President on free and compulsory basic education for every child  of primary and junior secondary school age in Nigeria, during his speech at the inauguration of the National Economic Council (NEC).

The statement read: “The abrogation of the Almajiri (Qur’anic learning system associated with begging on economic and religious grounds peculiar to some Northern states) system of education remains an objective but there is no immediate ban of it by the Buhari Administration.