Kano, Nigeria – The Northern Government of the largest city in Nigeria begins to evacuate more than 5,000 street young people considered a “security threat” and an expanding fear as a more obliged economic crisis to handle them through them. Hisbah, a regional police force guilty of executing the Law of Islamic Sharia, automobile the raids in car parks, markets and corners in the regional capital, Kano, since the beginning of the year, evacuating young people while sleeping.
“We have so far mopped up 300 of these boys from the streets and taken them into a camp provided for their rehabilitation,” Hisbah’s director-general Abba Sufi told AFP. “Their continued living on the streets is a huge social and security threat because they are potential criminal recruits.”
“They are a tick time bomb that you urgently want to be deactivated with touch and care,” said Sufi.
In November, the governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, established a committee to rid the city of street children, the maximum of whom are children. Many sleep outdoors and don’t have to have school or parental attention.
With the divorce rate in Nigeria, according to official figures, Kano faces a building in young people in damaged houses.
Widely left to fend for themselves, children run through the city, beggar, promoting pieces to traffic lighting accessories and recovering the scrap for sale to eat effective.
The Economic Force of Western Africa has faced its worst economic crisis for decades, inflation that emerges 34. 6% in November, leaving a lot of food.
Nigeria has 18. 5 million youth outside, with the state of Kano that represents 1. 9 million, the country’s rate, according to the United Nations Childhood Fund (UNICEF) in a survey in survey 2022.
The Kano figure accounts for 39% of the total number of children living in the state, the 2022 Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty survey said.
Authorities told AFP that many young people in the city of Kano came here from neighboring states.
“Some of them are from Kano, while others are from other states,” said Hisbah commander, Aminu Daurawa. “The first step is to profile them and identify where they got here. “
Some were sent to the villages to be informed to read the Qur’an in casual Islamic devout schools called Almajiri. The residents said that many Koranic schools began food and alms between courses.
Government attempts and local teams to interfere and Almajiri’s secular formula faced the opposition of classical religious.
Hisbah’s police plan to supply “psychosocial” and recommendation to young people before registering for those who demonstrate interest in school, Sufi said, added that others will get seeds to begin a business of their choice.
Daurawa told AFP that young people who are outside the State will be repatriated after rehabilitation.
The previous attempts to frame the city of the youth of the street failed.
Between 2017 and 2018, the Hisbah evacuated some 26,000 young people and accumulated them with their inner parents and outside the Kano doors, but returned to the street after a pause, according to Daurawa.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities in Kano shut almajiri schools and transported the pupils to their states, but they returned when the schools reopened.
“We need a Beyond Experience practice session, so we’ve replaced the approaches through camping young people and rehabilitating them before returning them to society,” Sufi said.