From Saka Bolaji, Minna
National Chairman of Jama’ atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa iqamatil Sunnah (JIBWIS), Shiekh Abdullahi Bala Lau, has condemned the existence of the almajiri system in Northern Nigeria.
Sheik Bala Lau blamed the Hausa-Fulani hegemony for the street children syndrome and condemned the elites of the region for condemning the children of the poor to poverty, rather than providing training for them so that they can contribute the region’s development.
Shiekh Bala Lau made these submissions in an interview in Minna in continuation of his states tour to ascertain first hand information, challenges and progress of his members in the country.
According to him, “as a leader you don’t to stay in a particular place and assume it’s all well with your people, You should go to them to assess their conditions, situations, activities and help them to get on in life.”
However, the Islamic cleric stated that government all over the world can never provide jobs for their citizens considering the population rates, hence needed to be complemented by the private sectors of the economy and provision of skills for self-employment.
He reiterated that the sect, which has existed for about 40 years, has never been anti-government in any negatively way and assured of the sect’s peaceful conduct to ensure peace in the country.
Lau therefore called on Nigerians to continued to pray for their leaders’ good health and God’s guidance and wisdom to lead the country aright, especially for President Muhammadu Buhari’s quick recovery from his undisclosed illness “because when a leader is sick his people and nation become sick, hence he need the people’s prayers to overcome it.”
Lau also declared support for the federal government’s fight against corruption in the country “because the menace of corruption brings backwardness and retrogression of the society as well as poverty.”
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