Since 2010, the Borno State government has been engaged in a battle of concepts with the terror group, Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, aka Boko Haram,...
By Hamisu Kabir Matazu Since 2010, the Borno State government has been engaged in a battle of concepts with the terror group, Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, aka Boko Haram, over the lawfulness of western education. For the sect, ‘boko’ (western education) is ‘haram’ (unlawful); for the government, ‘boko’ is ‘halal’ (lawful). Therefore, the current state of the development of educational infrastructures and human resources points to the victorious among the two arch-foes – the sect and the government.
The sect, right from the onset, hoisted the banner of ‘unlawfulness’ of ‘boko’ as its underpinning concept; hence, with a global-style terror, the insurgents descended massively on, and crushed virtually everything they perceived as representing, western education, as part of its terror war against the entire Nigerian state; a war that has persisted, albeit at a fast lessening degree and force, to this day. The Boko Haram insurgents devastated among other public properties, about 2,500 classroom blocks, and killed about 2,300 teachers, reducing Western education in Borno State to an unprecedented pathetic state – a near non-existent state. Why Yobe is deboarding public schools – Deputy gov 180,000 HIV patients access 264 health facilities in Benue The state governmen.
