Boko Haram: Youths Urged to Embrace Western Education

Boko Haram: Youths Urged to Embrace Western Education

Youths in the North-east region have been advised to embrace western education and disengage from act capable of causing breach of public order.

This advice was given yesterday by the senator representing Borno North, Abubakar Kyari, at the commencement of the distribution of relief items donated by friends and associates of the Nigerian First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, under her 'Future Assured' programme to internally displaced women who have returned to their communities in Monguno and Nganzai Local Government Areas of Borno State.

Kyari, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on INEC, said: "Without western education, no society would make progress or make a meaningful development," asking the youths to embrace western education in order to build their future, rather than engaging in act capable of ruining their lives and their society.

The Senator who commended the troops of 8 Task Force Division of the Nigerian Army in Monguno and other troops of 'Operation Lafiya Dole' in the Northeast for degrading remnants of Boko Haram insurgents, lamented that "it was as a result of lack of western education among youths that gave rise to Boko Haram insurgency.

"Unless our youths disengage and disassociate themselves from nefarious activities such as drug abuse, cultism and other undesirable anti-social tendencies, and enroll into western schools, the poverty which has become so rampant and glaring on the faces of our people will continue to exist."

He added: "I want to thank the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, and her committee for taking their time and resources to donate relief items for our displaced people who are in dire need of means of livelihood, especially now that peace have returned to our dear state and the North-east region in general. This is the first time in the history of this country that a wife of a president is donating food and other relief items to the people of this constituency, and I urged you to continue to pray for them to succeed and for peace in the land."

Earlier in her address, Aisha who was represented by the state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hajja Fanta Baba Shehu, said 400 displaced women household in each of the two council areas of Monguno and Nganzai were selected and benefited from the gesture.

She said each woman, irrespective of her political inclination, would receive a bag of rice, masavita, Semovita, cartons of detergents, milk, active meal, blankets among other items.

She noted that already, women from Kaga, Magumeri, Mafa, Dikwa, Askira Uba, Gwoza, Gubio and other local government areas in the state have benefitted from the exercise, and assured them that all victims of insurgency and other related violence will be reached out by the committee across the country.

In a vote of thanks, the Caretaker Chairman of Monguno, Liman Kalla, expressed gratitude to the wife of the president and her committee for identifying with victims of insurgency in the region, and promised that the items would be judiciously distributed to the target beneficiaries.