The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Thursday said that the on going deportation of Almajirai to their state of birth by some state governments in Nigeria is illegal and not the way out of COVID -19 spread.
SPN stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan signed by its Acting National Chairperson, Comrades Abiodun Bamigboye and National Secretary, Chinedu Bosah According to the party , it ” strongly believes that deporting the Almajirai to their natal states neither mean taking them off the street nor will it bring change in their lives and still will not fundamentally address other menace attributable to this system.”
The party specifically asked ” the northern governors to go beyond this display of haughty populism”, but rather, ” should mobilize resources, as part of adequate funding of education, healthcare and basic amenities with a view to educate and care for all Nigerian children including the Almajiris.
“We vehemently condemns the gale of deportation of Almajirai across different states in Nigeria, especially in the northern part of the country. However, the Party believes that the system of Almajiri in its current form requires a, genuine, comprehensive and more humane reform,” it said.
SPN added, “the Almajirai phenomenon, just like the growing population of out of school children and child cult groups in the south is a product of fundamental contradiction of the society in which it thrives: poor education funding, abject poverty, wealth inequality and stitched social mobility.
“It is obvious that the Nigerian capitalist ruling elites always shy away from addressing the root cause of the social menace bedeviling our country. In other words, their solutions are always ad hoc, cosmetic, superficial and, in most cases, deepen the crises they are out to solve.”
