Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa has disclosed that the majority of the protesters in his state are Almajiri, who did not even understand what they were protesting against or for.
The governor made the revelation on Thursday, August 8, while speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today, a programme monitored by Legit.ng. He added that a misconception about the concept of Almajiri in northern Nigeria needed to be clarified.
According to Governor Sule, Almajiri is a student of Islamic knowledge, but many of the northern people have abused the concept by giving birth to a number of children they could not raise and sending them to Imams who could not also feed themselves in the name of getting Islamic knowledge.
He went further to explain that the first step to solving the problem is to start educating the people on the importance of birth control, lamenting how many people who could not manage one wife financially would marry two to three women.
The governor stressed that the recent hunger protests in the north are a wake-up call to all the governors, noting that it was time for them to sit and tell each other the truth.
According to Governor Sule, the North can’t continue to blame others for its challenges while birth control continues to increase and death control is not at the same pace.
See a clip of his interview here:
Politics Today https://t.co/rglfiXMELY
— Channels Television (@channelstv) August 8, 2024
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