OVERCOMING THE ALMAJIRI SCOURGE

It is surmountable. The Almajiri culture is surmountable. It is a gradual process. For those who are already in the system, you start by integrating their Quranic or Arabic studies with Western or regular school curricula until the culture (Almajiri) is completely eliminated. This was followed by discouraging parents from sending their children to Imam and Sheikhs out of state for caring and upbringing. You do that by providing social support and making schools available and within walking distance from homes in every community. I wrote a paper on it. President Jonathan experimented on it. President Buhari abandoned it.

His "Boys" are busy chasing me from pillar to post, hacking my accounts with enthusiastic abandon. To the extent of publishing the password of my email addresses on a dangerous website. They cloned some folks' email accounts and used them to invade my messenger, mocking me stridently. While we are focusing on solutions and how to move Nigeria forward, on the other hand, they are doing everything dangerously possible to silence the voices and opinions of the real patriots in other to perpetuate in office a very dangerous human being - an unrepentant racist and a bigot who has never pretended to accept the notion that Nigeria is one country.

He has taken feudalism to a scale unprecedented in the history of our amalgamation. He cherishes and values quality education, but not for every Nigerian child. And he surrounded himself with characters who escalated the worst in him about nation-building, accountability, rule of law, and equal rights and justice. His Attorney General has become a law unto himself - a Gestapo kingpin, devoid of human kindness and professional ethics training. They sent armed men in a mafia-style to private homes to kill and hunt down perceived enemies.

These people are the most dangerous set of political operatives the world has ever seen. This is no longer about APC vs PDP, it is The Buhari's Men vs the rest of us. That's how they see the struggle and that's the fight they fight.

Is this how to rule a country? You could trace me all over the United States; invading my workspace, bank accounts, Facebook account, and email address, but you can't trace the Bandits who are terrorizing the entire North, killing Nigerians, taking over our villages and communities, and spilling blood all over our lustrous landscape. And you want me to be quiet, writing about entertainment and music! Give me the Amajiri, and in three years all the emerging deviants roaming our streets, begging for money will be in classrooms, learning. I know I can do it because I am the author of the almajiri integrative education model.