Why Boko Haram persists - Senate leader

By The Nation: Nicholas Kalu

 

Ndoma-Egba

Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has said the "large army of uneducated young men and women" in Northern Nigeria is largely responsible for the Boko Haram menace in the country.
Speaking during the Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba Scholarship Award Ceremony for the 2012/2013 academic year in Calabar, the Cross River State capital on Friday, he said if youths in the northern part of the Nigeria were educated, they would not be used to cause mayhem in the country.
Ndoma-Egba, who represents the Southern Senatorial District in Cross River State, said education is the only true gift anyone can get.
The senator, who recollected how he nearly dropped out of school because of three pounds, expressed gratitude to one late Mr. Paul Erokoro, who came to his rescue during the period.
"You see how just three pounds that did not even mean anything to Mr. Erokoro produced a Senate Leader today," he said.