KTSG to emulate Kano on how to Improve Almajiri System

PRESS RELEASE

The Kano Commissioner of Education, Malam Muhammad Sanusi Sa’id Kiru has recieved delegation under the Katsina State Committee on Identification and collation of Data on Almajirai Schools who were in the state to learn the way forward on how to improve their system of Almajiri education.

Speaking while receiving the delegation in his office, the Commissioner revealed that the state government through the coordination of the Ministry has done so much, achieved so much in the area of repatriation of Almajiri, integration of the tsangaya curriculum as well as reforming the Qur’anic and Islamiyya system of Education.

He disclosed that some of the measures taken was the appointment of Coordinators for Almajiri and Islamiyya Schools across the 44 local government areas charged with the responsibility of identifying Qur’anic and Islamiyya Schools at the local government level, registration, regulation and control as representatives of the Qur’anic and Islamiyya Schools Management Board.

He added that it is through the strong synergy maintained and the political will of His Excellency that the State recorded a huge succeses in identifying and documentation of the Qur’anic and Islamiyya Schools as well as the repatriation of Almajiri’s to their states of origin.

The Commissioner also explained that in view of the genuine commitment of the state government towards banning of street begging in the state and the need to properly repositioned the Qur’anic and Islamiyya schools to a modern status, the ministry had to take over 3 abandoned Mordern Tsangaya Boarding schools from the FG and injected hundreds of millions to make them condusive for accommodating 320 Almajiris returned to Kano State from other states are therefore to be admitted in to the three new integrated Almajiri boarding schools at Bunkure, Kanwa and Kiyawa.

He further added that the state government has recently employed 60 Alarammas (Tsangaya teachers) who are to be posted to all the existing fifteen mordern Tsangaya schools.

While thanking the visiting commitee for finding Kano as a role model worthy of emulation, he urged them to liase with Kano State Qur’anic and Islamiyya Schools Management Board for further guidance, stressing that as a sister state, Kano is ever willing to support Katsina state in that direction.

Earlier in his speech, the leader of the delegation from Katsina State, Alhaji Ibrahim Muhammad Daku said they were in Kano state to learn the strategies used in achieving the successes recorded in the area of improving and mordernizing Qur’anic and Islamiyya Schools.

Alhaji Muhammad Daku disclosed that Katsina state has rolled out 5 points agenda in it’s bid to see to the sucessful commencement of integrated Almajiri system of education in the state.

According to him, part of the mandates of their Committee is to ensure accurate collation of the bio-data of the Almajiris, plan modalities for repatriating the non indigenous Almajiris to their respective states and give strong recommendations to government on how best to organize the integration of Qur’anic and Islamiyya schools in Katsina state.

He however, told the Commissioner that the 3rd agenda was what prompted them to come to Kano and learn the strategies adopted so that their state can equally succeed in that direction, hoping that they will be properly guided by Kano expertise.

ALIYU YUSUF
CPRO Ministry of Education Kano State.