Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enroll their children into the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and up to two years jail.
El-Rufai stated this when he visited some 200 Almajiri children repatriated from Nasarawa State and undergoing rehabilitation and optical screening in Kaduna.
The governor also said that any Islamic cleric who enrolls any child into the Almajiri system would also be prosecuted and jailed as well as fined 100 thousand or 200 thousand naira per child.
He said that all the Almajiri pupils repatriated from other states of the country were indigenes of the state adding that the government would give them all the opportunity they deserved to grow and develop.
