He agrees with the views of many learned men and women that the Almajiri system was a blight on the North as a polity. Sheikh Dairu Usman Bauchi, a reputed cleric, urged the government to find a more credible alternative system of Islamic education to the Almajiri system. But if I read the NSA clearly, he did not say that the current students of Almajiri system are criminals. Some defenders of the Almajiri system may find this unbelievable blasphemy but the truth is that some famous or notorious thugs that some of us have come across are graduates of some variants of the Almajiri system. One of them is Professor Mohammed-Bello Yunusa of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, a product of Almajiri system but who successfully combined his Almajiri education with Western education to become a professor of Urban and Regional Planning.

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 03:45 UTC