According to President Buhari, the Islamic education associated with begging on economic and religious grounds exists because the state governments are not doing their jobs.

He said “The problem of education, I hope when you are going to produce your paper you should be referring to the constitution. What the Centre (Federal Government) is supposed to do; what the state is supposed to do and what the local governments are supposed to do. And that again, you reflect on the basis for revenue allocations from the centre which is being published by the Nigerian press every quarter – the amount of money earned and how it is divided by the three tiers of government. The people are deliberately criticising the government – when I say the government of course I mean the Federal Government, for the Almajiris. But that is the responsibility of the state governments, which means the state governments are not doing their job”.