By Zanna Ali haruna

It is robust to see the legal action that has been taken place in response to reform tsangaya schools across Yobe state by the state governor, Hon. Mai mala buni, and the state commissioner of education, Dr. Muhammad sani idris, who stand firmly to modernize the system from the threshold of their teaching to ensure that the sector is not left behind in Yobe state.

Some state governors, whose narrow look over the issue have made an elicited comments based on their hindsight to completely shut down the system in their states which will be another genesis in my point of view.

Truth be told, it is their right to be recognized as citizens and receive equal welfare and support that has been giving to the western education, not to completely shut down and try to eradicate the ancient practice of learning Islam through the system.

I believe it is the negligence and myopic thinking of their parents; who said that a child is sent to learn Islam while begging to satisfy his appetite. For them, it is the traditional system of learning that says ‘A child must live in hardscrabble before he gets the Islamic knowledge’, which is totally untrue.

To be frank, Most of the Almajiris are being criticized because of the suspicious evils that link to them in the past, present, and the foreshadow of what they might be if they are still neglected in the future. 

Government is responsible to fortify the system by providing necessary tools as part of its governmental projects to the victims.

Lastly, I applaud Mai ma buni for his huge  as the first elected-democratic  governor, who has shown his interest to the welfare of the victims and see how the sector will be reformed extremely. Thank you your excellency.