A popular Kannywood actress, Nafisa Abdullahi has stated that parents should desist from birthing children they can’t afford to cater for.
The actress gave the advise through a series of tweets on Saturday.
She wrote;
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“Stop giving birth to babies you know you can’t afford to take care of.
“God will hold you accountable for having children without giving them all the necessary guidance and parental care.
“God will ask you on the way and manner you raised your children, so those in the habit of having many children they cannot take care of, ending up in sending them far in search for knowledge get prepared”
She expressed her deep concern on the way some parents were sending their two to three-year-olds to Almajiri school.
The actress however didn’t point finger at any tribe, it is common in Hausa land for children to be sent to Islamic school far away from their parents and home in search of knowledge (Almajiranci).