Initially the Almajiri system was conceived for religious
and character development of children as they grow but
today has outlived its usefulness, its deviation from the
original idea and in practice has resulted in violations of
child rights. This study examined the prevalence of sexual
and psychological child abuse in Almajiri system of
education in Zaria local government North West Nigeria.
The study is a descriptive cross sectional design. The study
population for this study was 753 respondents comprising
of male students between the ages of 8-16 years, a simple
random sampling technique was employed to select eight
wards out of thirteen wards in Zaria Local Government, a
stratified proportionate sampling technique was used to
draw the sample size of 449 pupils from the twenty- two
schools in the selected eight wards. The instrument used
for this study is questionnaire with a reliability coefficient
score of 0.78. Data was analysed using SPPS.V.23 and
presented in tables, frequencies and percentages. The
demographic characteristics of this study reveals that
majority of the respondents within the age of 13-15years
(37.6%), from Hausa ethic group (68.1%), did not attend
Western education school (81.4%). Majority of the
respondent’s fathers’ occupation is farming (73.5%).
Findings further revealed that majority of the respondents
are engaged in any income generating work (72.6%), such
as House help (26.9%) and wheel barrow pusher (22.9%),
also, work for 1 to 4hrs per day (43.9%). The result of this
study observed that the prevalence of sexual abuse among
the pupils in the Almajiri schools is very low (18.1%).
Study indicates that the type of injuries sustained from
sexual abuse are bleeding in the genital or anal area
(19.2%) This study noted that the perpetrators of their
sexual abuse among the respondents are the adolescent
male pupils (76.9%). Study indicates that the prevalence
of psychological child abuse among respondents is above
average (58.4%). These results suggest that the provisions
of accommodation and possibly following the new system
of Almajiri school system introduced by the Federal
Government could help to reduce incidence of sex abuse since the common accommodation is a major factor. The
Council of Ulama could play a significant role in adopting
the system where by every child should be allow to come
from their parent homes to the schools. This will help to
reduce incidence of psychological child abuse
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- Almajiri; Sexual Abuse; Psychological Abuse; Educational System.
- PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE IN ALMAJIRI SYSTEM
