Out Of School Children: Kaduna-based activist, Mahdi Shehu blames Northern Leaders for not sustaining GEJ’s tsangi school programme
Leaders from the Northern part of Nigeria have been asked to publicly apologize to former president Goodluck Jonathan for failing to sustain his Tsangaya school projects aimed at eradicating Almajiris from the streets.
Popular Kaduna-based social activist, Mahdi Shehu who spoke to AIT Television in his Kano library, said a dangerous army of social delinquents is building up in the region if they are not taken from the streets.
The expression that “good intentions are not enough, has played out in the northern part of Nigeria where most of the Tsangaya schools established by former president Goodluck Jonathan are now shadows of themselves.
Over ninety percent of Jonathan’s Almajiri schools are in shambles.
The buildings are not only dilapidated, the furniture has been destroyed leaving them in an unhabitable state.
The social crusader said northern leaders must apologize to Goodluck Jonathan for failing to sustain his vision after campaigning against his return in 2015 despite his good intentions for the region.
Shehu said violent crimes will not end soon in the country unless the Almajiris are taken off the streets to the classroom.
Empirical evidence shows that the Tsangi schools fail to function because most state governments left their funding and provision of food for the Almajeris who were taken from the streets after the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
