The situation in Nigeria has called for everybody to be involved. In the news, it was reported that the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, showed a lot of concern towards finding lasting solutions to the Boko Haram insurgency. Based on his experience, education is essential for the development of the citizens in the north. Also that the issue of leadership in Nigeria must be improved to bring good results and not failure. The provision of unemployment opportunities for the citizens must be dealt with to tackle a lot of crises. He also noted on BBC Focus on Africa (September 14, 2012) that the major external factors encouraging terrorism are handiwork of Qaddafi of Libya who trained and armed forces to wreck havoc in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. In conclusion, he described Boko Haram’s demands as ‘unattainable.’_________________________________________________________________
It is reasonable to understand that the former president have mentioned some of the factors responsible for high rate of terrorism in Nigeria. However, it is the duty of the government like tax is been enforced, to ensure that every child is compelled to be given useful education in life. The government can focus on improving the weaknesses of the vast populace to properly train every child in Nigeria. Through this, adequate monitoring and provision of needed facilities and manpower to relief the burden of developing better citizens will be provided.
Governments at all levels in the country has role to play. They also need to ensure that this education in issue must be provided for all so that our society will not be bearing a burden of great loss that will set us back as a nation. The step in this direction requires that government must make it a law for officials or office holders in government not to train their wards outside Nigeria. Those who already have their wards abroad should have them withdrawn back to any public or private schools in Nigeria. This step in the right direction will not make mockery of our education system and people in administration of policies making and implementation for the development of our society will also eat from their programs. Education in Nigeria will never be improved if the people in control of governance are allowed to avoid reaping from what they had sown.
President Goodluck Jonathan must make a change for government to take control of welfare and protection of the general interests of the people. He must come up with realizable plans to save the all citizens from all sorts of foreseeable problems. This will make education accessible for all, provide people with good jobs for what they are skillful and knowledgeable in. This must start on time to realize desired results as it is in the policies of government towards Vision 2020. This will benefit majority of the people and bring about rapid human and resource development in a short time. Then government must organise enlightenment and advocacy programs to discourage all manner of corruption, campus cultism, and other forms of terrorist acts.
Poverty and political propaganda must be tackled by this government to discourage eulogizing political office holders with government resources. There should be provision of good health and social facilities and amenities for the populace. Before, it was campus cultism, later it was militants in the creek, now Boko Haram Islamic sect, only God knows what next? It is important there is justice, uncompromised rule of law and good governance for efforts towards peace to make good result. For example, if the unlawful mass murder in Maiduguri that is popularly referred to as extra-judicial killing was handled without delay, fear or favor, there will be no Boko Haram groups bombing in our society.
We have to pay attention to the increasing rate of campus cult membership recruitment in the northern part of Nigeria. The northern part of Nigeria recorded the lowest record of cult activities before the issue of Boko Haram came. After the mass murder in Maidugui, suddenly the recruitment increase in number and strategic operations of the cult became most active in the country. In fact, young people including children were targeted. Meanwhile, campus cultism with strong propaganda of blackmailing Islam against the Christians made it possible for their terrorist assault to affect most people in the various communities they have attacked. Through campus cultism, it is very easy for Boko Haram to subject some of their members to brainwashing process for the execution of their various terrorist acts, possibly creating some benefits for all sacrificial efforts in pursuit of their goals. It is time Nigeria start looking in the direction of checking the operations of cult system in our society in other to facilitate good counseling and rehabilitation for citizens.
If the government cannot fight corruption and eradicate campus cultism, there is a great challenge that the government might not be able to conquer the problems responsible for all manner of local terrorism in recent times. There is an ongoing round table dialogue between the Federal Government and the Boko Haram, and there is also an ongoing arm engagement with another Boko Haram in Maiduguri by the JTF that has arrested, killed and burst some Boko Haram members and operations. Emphasis should be laid on the success of the 'back door' meeting and military clampdown since these are the major efforts of the government to be in control of the situation in Nigeria now.
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