Joseph Kingston, Calabar
Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba has said the threat posed by
Boko Haram would become history if the uneducated in the society are
made to acquire formal education, stressing that no educated child of
an enlightened and educated ‘big’ man in the North would be easily
used against his own people.
In a chat with Journalists in Calabar at the weekend, Ndoma-Egba
reasoned that most of those used to perpetrate violence are the
uneducated who have been brainwashed by people who are bent on
destroying the country.
He said sponsors of Boko Haram sect are “just deliberately trying to
provoke a situation to achieve a political goal”,
His words: “The act of violence in the Northern part of the country
can not be justified by any right thinking person. Moslem and
Christian Clerics have equally condemned it. The two religions have
their roots in Abraham and they preached against violence.
“For me, it is a clear case of people being brainwashed under the
guise of religion and at the same time targeting and killing Moslems
also. When you begin to attack churches, it means the motives are
certainly not religious.
“I doubt if educated children of any big man in the North would be
involved in what we are currently experiencing. When you have large
uneducated, jobless and idle young men in the society, they become
veritable tools in the hands of people who have wrong motives”, he had
said.
The Senator frowned vehemently at the escape of the Boko Haram kingpin
and called on security agents to be more committed to their
responsibilities, and expressed fears that the police have given
Nigerians enough reasons to believe that security agents are
accomplice in the whole Boko Haram brouhaha.
“The key suspect escaping in a very hilarious circumstances calls for
reassessment of roles of the police in the whole scenario. The
circumstances of the escape as reported looks like an amateur drama
script written by a member of a dramatic club in a secondary school.
“Part of the solution is when the dimension and the dynamics of this
development are highlighted. Now we are beginning to know that some of
those we thought were protecting us may be part of the problem,” he
had submitted.
He believed that Nigeria was gradually getting to the end of the
undesirable nightmare “because everything is now in the open”, but
called on all Nigerians to be security conscious and to give
information to security agents in order to nib the Boko Haram threat
in the mud.
Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba has said the threat posed by
Boko Haram would become history if the uneducated in the society are
made to acquire formal education, stressing that no educated child of
an enlightened and educated ‘big’ man in the North would be easily
used against his own people.
In a chat with Journalists in Calabar at the weekend, Ndoma-Egba
reasoned that most of those used to perpetrate violence are the
uneducated who have been brainwashed by people who are bent on
destroying the country.
He said sponsors of Boko Haram sect are “just deliberately trying to
provoke a situation to achieve a political goal”,
His words: “The act of violence in the Northern part of the country
can not be justified by any right thinking person. Moslem and
Christian Clerics have equally condemned it. The two religions have
their roots in Abraham and they preached against violence.
“For me, it is a clear case of people being brainwashed under the
guise of religion and at the same time targeting and killing Moslems
also. When you begin to attack churches, it means the motives are
certainly not religious.
“I doubt if educated children of any big man in the North would be
involved in what we are currently experiencing. When you have large
uneducated, jobless and idle young men in the society, they become
veritable tools in the hands of people who have wrong motives”, he had
said.
The Senator frowned vehemently at the escape of the Boko Haram kingpin
and called on security agents to be more committed to their
responsibilities, and expressed fears that the police have given
Nigerians enough reasons to believe that security agents are
accomplice in the whole Boko Haram brouhaha.
“The key suspect escaping in a very hilarious circumstances calls for
reassessment of roles of the police in the whole scenario. The
circumstances of the escape as reported looks like an amateur drama
script written by a member of a dramatic club in a secondary school.
“Part of the solution is when the dimension and the dynamics of this
development are highlighted. Now we are beginning to know that some of
those we thought were protecting us may be part of the problem,” he
had submitted.
He believed that Nigeria was gradually getting to the end of the
undesirable nightmare “because everything is now in the open”, but
called on all Nigerians to be security conscious and to give
information to security agents in order to nib the Boko Haram threat
in the mud.
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