Poverty, the Almajiri System and the Rising Cases of Societal Crimes in Northern Nigeria

Abstract

Poverty is a condition of having insufficient resources or income, lack of basic human needs such as adequate and nutritious food, clothes, housing, clean water and many more. It is a condition that can lead to terrible suffering, prevent people from realizing many of their desires and can as well lead to death. Poverty is an encumbrance that has for long bedevilled many people in some part of Northern Nigeria and has been used as an artifice wheeling the Almajiri system which has further led to the rising incidences of societal crime in Northern part of Nigeria. The study examined the relationship between poverty, the Almajiri system and the increasing cases of crime in Northern Nigerian. This was further complemented by descriptive and qualitative analysis. The study adopted a combination of methods such as secondary data drawn from an array of published and unpublished materials relevant to the study; journals, conference and seminar papers, internet materials, reports and documentary excerpt. The study The study findings show that there is relationship between poverty, the Almajiri system and increasing incidence of societal crime. The findings of the study revealed that poverty has impacted negatively on the Almajiri system and consequently the societal crime in Northern Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommends the need to sensitize the people on functional societal living, attitudinal re-awakening and reorientation, poverty reduction programmes.