Former IG, NIPR President Canvass Collective Efforts to End Almajiri System

Oghenevwede Ohworiole in Abuja

A former Inspector General of the Nigerian Police (IGP), IGP Mohammad Abubakar (rtd), and the President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr. Ike Neliaku, have called on both state, federal governments and well-meaning individuals to help end the almajiri system in the country.

They both spoke at the graduation ceremony of 21 almajiri students from the Almajiri-to-Tech Foundation organized by the New Horizons in Abuja.

Abubakar who chaired the event noted the almajiri menace has become a problem of the entire country and not just that of northern Nigeria alone.

“There’s a system breakdown. So that system breakdown needs to be mended constitutionally or otherwise. Is there anywhere you don’t have almajiri out-of-school children? So, if you look at these two multiple issues, they are critical issues.