Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, lamented expanding number of the out-of-younger students in Nigeria, portraying them as potential Boko Haram initiates.
Obasanjo said this while tending to members at the official youth mentorship retreat held at Youth Development Center , Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He brought up that with around 14 million out of younger students wandering Nigerian roads, nobody needs a prophet to realize that those youngsters would go to Boko Haram initiates in the following ten years.
Obasanjo said the pace of the dropouts would grow instability in Nigeria.
He said “A circumstance today where we have 14 million kids that ought to be in school that are not in school , does anyone should be a prophet to tell that 10 years or 15 years from now, those will be the place where you will select unadulterated Boko Haram.
“In this way, assuming you manage Boko Haram by stick today in couple of years time the circumstance will be most exceedingly terrible on the grounds that we are discussing security, it will be most exceedingly awful. All in all, on the off chance that we are discussing uncertainty, where would it be advisable for us to start? Assuming that we are discussing neediness where would it be advisable for us to start? It is schooling.
” Somebody said assuming everyone is taught who will be a worker and I said in case everyone is instructed then we will improve worker than you ought to have gotten from those that are not instructed.”
The previous president kept up with that the solidarity of Nigeria is central, focusing on that he would battle for the solidarity of Nigeria for the duration of his life.
He said, “In the event that I was a Yoruba chief, I would not have prevailed as I prevailed for Nigeria, I may have prevailed for the Yorubas. Your sibling from South East is correct, I accepted that each Nigerian is more regarded in the panel of countries assuming Nigeria remains.
“Try not to allow us to delude ourselves, will individuals actually regard us in view of our populace, 200 million individuals, you can’t simply squander them , in any event, when I go out, individuals will say you Nigerians are not at the table and that is valid, we are not at the table when we ought to be at the table.
“I have no lament for battling for the solidarity of Nigeria and in case it comes up tomorrow that it ought to be done and I have capacity to do it, I will do what I need to do. I accepted that the last thing isn’t in our battling for the solidarity of this nation is in ensuing administration that we have.”