Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said that the Tsangayal School system known as the Almajiri school system introduced by the Jonathan administration was a misplaced priority saying.
Speaking at an APC media roundtable in Abuja, Ganduje said what should have been done was to find a way of integrating the almajiris into the normal school system to avoid stigmatization in the future.
The governor said it was a waste of resources to construct blocks of classrooms in the name of almajiri schools without the pupils to attend them.
While saying that he has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, explaining the measures been by the Kano state government to intergrate the students, he said creating special schools for the almajiris was abnormal.
“The last federal government introduced the Almajiri schools but the school is not well articulated. It is a wrong policy. For example in my village, we have this school with only 50 students and in Kano we have over three million Almajiris.
“If you are creating an Almajiri school that is abnormal, who will like to be tagged Almajiri? Is it that after completing your studies your certificate will be tagged Almajiri? And later in life you will be called a graduate of Almajiri school? Which means you were an Almajiri before, so it has some social problems.
“What we are adapting is integration. The Almajiri are integrated into the normal school system and from our investigation most of the Almajiris in Kano came from other parts of the North state, from Chad and Niger.
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Jonathan’s Almajiri’s school system was a wrong policy, says Kano governor
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Road projects: NEC approves N535.5b reimbursement to states
The National Economic Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday approved the reimbursement of N535.5 billion to states for the expenses incurred on Federal roads.
Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
He was accompanied to the briefing by governors Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Samuel Ortom (Benue) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta).
Ajimobi said: “Another issue discussed is on refund of expenses incurred on repair of federal roads by states. As listed here, we have 13 states that have fully complied with the reimbursements requirements, we have eight states that have partially complied, 21 states without compliance and the total sum of claims to be reimbursed is exactly 535, 596, 386, in other words, N535.5 billion.”
[ad id=”403656”]He said N13 billion has been disbursed to states as at 2013 and that the challenges faced had to do with inadequate funding in the ministry.
He also disclosed that 26 state governments have applied for restructuring of their bank loans amounting to N500 billion.
While 11 of the states have concluded and submitted all relevant documents, he disclosed that 13 states are involved in the second phase that will commence soon.
He added: “The other major item that was discussed had to do with the restructuring of bank loans to state governments, and the restructuring was done into Federal Government bonds and the DG of DMO reported as follows: That 26 states applied for the loans, 11 states have concluded and submitted all relevant documents and 13 states are involved in the second phase to commence immediately. The total money involved in the restructuring stood at over N500 billion.”