Olusegun Obasanjo, former
President, says there will be no Boko Haram if the level of education in the
north-east matched what is obtainable in the south-west.
Obasanjo said it took quite some
time for Boko Haram to incubate and evolve into a full-fledged terrorist group.
He said history may repeat itself
if the women, children and youth of the north-east region are not provided with
ample education.
The former president made the
comments on Friday in Maiduguri, Borno state, while delivering his closing
remarks at the end of a two-day peer review meeting of the Nigeria Zero Hunger
Strategic Forum.
“Boko Haram did not start
overnight. It had an incubating period, but I do not know how long,” Obasanjo
said.
“And although I do not know how
long it took to incubate, I am sure if the level of education in the North-East
matched the level of education in the South-West, there wouldn’t have been Boko
Haram.
“If we do not cater for and
educate women, children and youth, they will become the Boko Haram of 15 years
to come.
“Education is the panacea,
education is the key, it inculcates the values that guard against the emergence
of Boko Haram.”
An August 2017 report by the
United Nations put the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Borno,
Adamawa and Yobe states at 1.7 million.
Most of them were displaced by
the Boko Haram insurgency.
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