The Katsina state house of assembly is considering a motion seeking to convert all television viewing centres across the 34 local government areas in the state into Islamic schools.
Mustapha Yusuf-Jibia, a member representing Jibia constituency, presented the joint motion on Tuesday at the plenary session presided over by Tasi’u Maigari, the assembly’s speaker.
Yusuf-Jibia said the call became necessary because the schools were more important than the viewing centres.
He said Islamic education had suffered setbacks in most of the areas, especially the rural areas, adding that if his prayer succeeded, the conversion would also assist in reducing the spate of insecurity in the state.
While citing an instance during a dialogue with some bandits where they complained of lack of schools for their children, he said the conversion would be an opportunity to enroll the bandits’ children.
“If my prayer scales through, it will also help in reducing the number of Almajiri children roaming the streets in the name of begging,” he said.
“Some of these viewing centres were abandoned and had become refuse dumps, criminal hideouts and a place where redundant youths hang around.
According to him, if the centres were converted, the government will recruit teachers to teach in the schools which w
Since I was a child, all I hear is giving the armajiris opportunity to go to school and stop begging which we know will never be possible because begging is in their DNA.