Aminu Bello Masari, the Katsina State governor has ordered the restructuring of the Almajiri Koranic system of education in the state to address the challenges posed by the out-of-school-syndrome and promote inclusive education.
One of the measures put in place is to introduce English Language, Mathematics and feeding of the almajiris.
Masari stated this during the inauguration of three committees that will serve at the state, local government and wards levels.
The committee assignment, he noted is to monitor the Federal Government’s homegrown school feeding programme.
According to him, it has become necessary to instill sanity in the quality of education in the state and free katsina streets from wondering Children.
Masari said: “I am changing the committees to look at the Almajiri system and create centres in each of the schools.
”If we start to introduce and bring in the Almajiri system to the school feeding program we will reduce the influx of young children in the streets and also help us on how we can give them some lessons especially on mathematics and the English language.”
The focal person in charge of the homegrown school feeding program, Abdulkadir Muhammad Nasir, said the main purpose of setting the committees is to monitor and supervise the program at all levels.
He said: “In the case of the wards committee, they are to propose names of vendors that will drown from their wards and schools to provide food to the pupils as well as supervise the quality and quantity of food cook to ensure compliance”
He also revealed that ” at inception, Katsina had a number of 338,488 pupils that are currently on the school feeding register, and each child is entitled to N70,00 food every day, which brings a total amount spent in Katsina FG food feeding program to N23, million daily and N473 million every month and 5. 6 billion annually.”
