It's so sad some parents would bring children into this beautiful world and refuse to take up responsibilities on them but rather leave them to themselves to struggle right from childhood.
Quite unfortunate you see such children beg for food on the streets, they go from canteen to canteen to eat leftovers. They look so unkept and stink.
Majorly this happens in the northern part of the country, they are the "Alimonjiris", what do you think these kind of children would grow up to become if not bandits, gunmen, kidnappers, armed robbers and assassins then terrorize the country. Perhaps, they need to survive too so they would do anything to sustain and meet their daily needs. They will be so despirate carlous, why? because they never had parental care or love. They will never have mercy because they feel life has never being fair to them.
Do we also blame government for this?
Do you blame government for not giving your child a proper upbringing?
Yet we complain of insecurities in the country most especially in the north. Every country is made up of communities, communities are made up of societies and societies are made up of families meanwhile families are made up of individuals. So individuals in the family, that is the parents really need to take up their responsibilities on their children.
These Alimonjiris can be easily convinced to Carry out evil acts and they would be paid and catered for, I'm sure they won't think twice before accepting the offer to terrorize.
It's high time frame for people especially in the north to changed their orientation so we can have a reasonable and peaceful society.
End should be put to this issue of Alimonjiris if not threats to security in Nigeria is on the high side, despite insecurity rampaging the country
ReplyDeleteNice write up. I completely agree with you. The northerners really need to be silensitized on the adverse effect of this carelessness in the society. Government also need to put some policies in place that will address the issue of Almajiri to some extent.
ReplyDeleteEnd should be put the issue
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