Extreme poverty: How beggers and Almajirai paid N20/N50 To sleep in Kano Nigeria
Kano state government in Northern Nigeria had discovered a house that charged beggers popularly known Almajirai N20/N50 to allow small children that were malingering on the street in a day to sleep. Thus, reports said the beggers or Almajirai include females and underage children could take loan to pay to sleep in the house. According to eye witness and BBC Reporter Khalifa Shehu Dokaji said, the nature of the house looked like TV watching center. The state government body responsible for the arresting of beggers and Almajirai closed down the house. However, reports have shown majority of the small children were not Almajirai but some of them ran away from their parents. Moreover, Almajirai were beggers associated with Islamic seeking of knowledge. There were some Muslims that believed before you seek Islamic knowledge you must be Almajiri. This saying was wrong according to the majority of Muslims and nowadays is classified as child labour that was t...