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Lawmaker Pin-points 13 Factors Responsible for Boko Haram Menace in Nigeria...See List
Posted by Lolade on Tue 20th Oct, 2015 - tori.ngA senator has identified 13 obvious factors responsible for the lingering insurgency in the country.
Senator Shehu Sani, who represents Kaduna Central in the Eighth Senate, listed 13 factors responsible for the widespread of Boko Haram in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria.
Sani said this when he received a delegation of Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) in his Kaduna office on Monday, October 19.
“I have been able to identify 13 factors that have seriously contributed to the wave of violence and bloodshed ignited and sustained by insurgency in the North-eastern part of Nigeria. We have reached a point in the North where we are not safe in the mosque, not safe in office, not safe in church and in any public gathering.
“The first and very strong factor has to do with manipulation of religion. There is no doubt those who took up the part of extremism sow its seed from manipulating and distorting religious teachings.
“The second is the disconnect between government and the governed. The growing gap between the leader and the led has created a vacuum..
“The third factor is the prevalence of social and economic injustices.
“The fourth factor is the global terror epidemic – terror contagion. Terrorism in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Africa spreads its cancerous effect destroying lives and property.
“The fifth factor is the collapse of public education. Normal schools that should have provided meaningful education to our children have collapsed.
“Then we have the massive unemployment as the sixth factor.
“As the seventh factor, we have the proliferation of arms and unguarded boarders. It has become easy for arms to move around our country, so accessible that our borders are porous and as such extremists find it easier to pick up guns and ammunition to fight.
“The eighth factor is the under-development of the North by previous administrations.”
Senator Sani also identified human rights abuse and extra-judicial killings as likely factors.
“The ninth factor is human right abuses and extra-judicial killings. This is another very important factor…The root cause of this insurgency was triggered by the killing of a leader out of the confines of the law and since then, we never knew peace.
“Economic collapse of the North is the tenth. Most of our industries have closed down. Our economy is as arid as our weather.
“As eleventh factor, we can also say that capitalism breeds terrorism.
The first-term Senator also identified lack of unity and ethnic crisis in the North as the twelfth factor.
The thirteenth factor, he said, is “the distortion of religious realities. The facts is this is the seed of terrorism. That is where the seed is. If you are a preacher and you distort the teachings of religion and bring something that is not supposed to be there, you are creating a monster.
“Therefore, for us to win the war against insurgency, we must break the wall of fear."
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