Abdulhakim Bamalli

Miner. Farmer. IT Services

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@pallnandi Absolutely!

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz 😂

[Distinguished BushPilot Iby @Blakjizuz]

Go bek to your kawntry

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz This video only shows the logistics aspect of mining. It doesn’t capture the rest of the value chain, including site preparation, extraction, beneficiation, trading, and essential support services like fuel, food, healthcare, and entertainment for workers.

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz The mining value chain generates enormous wealth, but without proper regulation, it will continue to fuel banditry and other forms of criminal activity.

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz Ameen ya Allah

[Distinguished BushPilot Iby @Blakjizuz]

@el_bonga @GovKaduna @ubasanius The evil part is they pulled her out of a police station. The police must answer for why they never called for backup to keep her there, and how they couldn’t stop the mob from going in to grab her

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@el_bonga Innalillahi wa'inna ilaihirrajiun
#JusticForUmmulkhairi

[Mr. El-Bonga @el_bonga]

How Ummulkhairi, an Islamic teacher, was killed in Jos by mobs.

Translation:

They killed an Islamic teacher, a married woman, in front of authorities, her scholars, and in front of the public, based on an allegation for which there was no evidence. #Thread #JusticForUmmulkhairi

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz It doesn’t even make sense

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz No way! 😅. Share the link please

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz @abdullahikambaa Ameen ya Allah. Scary stuff

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz @LaceVine Ohhh. Makes sense now, thank you

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@msiziworld Calibre of weapon matters here.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.

First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.

Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.

Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn

As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.

Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.

[Mr. El-Bonga @el_bonga]

I am a Muslim first, then a northerner, then Nigerian. This is my hierarchy of being a Nigerian. You are free to choose your hierarchical identity. But for many of us, this is what we see ourselves as. All those “I’m a Nigerian first”, grandstanding is nothing but self-deception.

[A.I. Adamu @isasquare]

U r asking the right questions, d last sentence was irrelevant.
Mobile networks all operate through a LIMITED network spectrum (which they have to pay heavily for licence btw way).
Fiber optic is a dedicated path with no practical physical limit. Problem isnt him, it’s science.

[Abdulhakim Bamalli @bamms001]

@Blakjizuz @SAD333Q Anzo wurin 😂