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branded at an early age; it prevents the child from being stigmatised; it minimises deprivation of the child’s liberty and avoids the risk of contact with more hardened criminals; it quickens the process of reform, deterrence and reintegration.

I will conclude with the words of late Mother Theresa of India when she said; “The biggest disease today is not leprosy, tuberculosis or AIDS, but the feeling of being unwanted.” This is the situation the Almajirai are in today. The challenge is on all to ensure adequate and proper care, protection and good upbringing of children, for they are our hope and the hope of our tomorrow.

TANKO YAKASAI ANNUAL COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE: Last week here in Kano, the first in a series of Annual Commemorative Lectures was held to celebrate the life of Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, veteran leftist politician who is now 92. Back in 2015, Alhaji Tanko was not the darling of many people, because he went against the trend then trending. But today, after some years of another round of JIKI MAGAYI, Kano political elite turned up to celebrate him. According to his wife, Hajiya Rabi, one favour Allah has bestowed on Alhaji Tanko is that he is rarely ill, but on the other hand she spent most of her young life in the 1950s and 1960s visiting prisons where her husband and his NEPU colleagues were incarcerated.

ADIEU, MAHMOON BABA-AHMED: Our senior colleague and Columnist on Aminiya, sister of this newspaper, died a couple of nights ago. May Allah forgive Mahmoon’s faults and admit him to Janna. This Columnist’s condolences go to especially his immediate family, and to his brother Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.