{"id":198135,"date":"2020-03-02T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=198135"},"modified":"2020-03-02T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:03:06","slug":"islamic-group-demands-arrest-of-parents-of-almajiris-hawkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=198135","title":{"rendered":"Islamic group demands arrest of parents of &#8216;almajiris&#8217;, hawkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), a human rights organization, on Monday called on the Federal Government to arrest parents of any child hawking on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement issued in Lagos, urged NASS to criminalize child abandonment by parents in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed worry over the influx of hawkers on the streets, adding that, \u2018youths roaming the streets are a waiting time bomb or may become a sword of Damocles hanging above our heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are worried about the large number of children roaming the streets. These are the leaders of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur children are our strength but that is only if we give them proper upbringing through a balanced education otherwise they become a sword of Damocles hanging above our heads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian children North and South are not receiving necessary attention. Thousands are hawking wares on the streets. They hold bowls begging in traffic gridlocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMURIC calls on the National Assembly (NASS) and all state legislatures in the country to set the machinery in motion for criminalising child abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen who fail to educate or train their children and allow them to roam the streets should be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Glorious Qur\u2019an chapter 2 verse 233 charges parents (particularly fathers) to provide the basic necessities of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is, therefore, a gross dereliction of parental responsibility to send children to the streets to beg, hawk or engage in any form of child labour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Allah is going to ask parents how well they take care of their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen ignore the proviso contained in the same verse that marrying more than one wife is only permitted if he has the ability to provide adequately for the extra wives and children.<\/p>\n<p>Akintola further called on the government to arrest fathers of Almajiris caught on the street, describing their existence as alarming.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming at a time when the governor of Kano State, Ganduje banned street begging in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existence of about 10 million almajiri children is an alarming phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore so the gory sight of thousands of children and young hawkers running after vehicles for the purpose of making sales is symptomatic of governmental failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese roaming youth are time bombs. We cannot solve the problem of crime proliferation without securing the future of our young ones<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not enough to arrest child-hawkers. Their parents, particularly the fathers, should be arrested, detained and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be a law that empowers law enforcement agents to take an almajiri to his father\u2019s house for the purpose of arresting the father and making him face the law,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), a human rights organization, on Monday called on the Federal Government to arrest parents of any child hawking on the streets. MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a statement issued in Lagos, urged NASS to criminalize child abandonment by parents in Nigeria. 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