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River State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has said military action cannot
end the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northern part of Nigeria.
He rather suggested that agriculture and education were the keys to
solving the insurgency.
Amaechi also hinted that members of the Boko Haram are being
sponsored by unknown individuals.
“For me, I have said over and over that the solution to Boko Haram
does not rest in the military. It rests in education and agriculture.
“If anybody tells you nobody is funding Boko Haram, how are they
getting the money to buy weapons”, he said.
The state Governor made the comments at the event to formally
designate Port Harcourt as the UNESCO World Book Capital, 2014 held
at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt.
Amaechi, who is also the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, also
promised that free education will be offered to the Secondary school
girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram members.
He said the school girls will be made to attend the state owned ultra-
modern Secondary schools.
“Each of the Secondary school is 4.5 billion naira. As Rivers State
Government, anybody who wants to go to that school goes there free
of charge and as a step in having being admitted, you are going to be
given a laptop. There is no classroom with blackboard; its visual
classroom and it is being managed by Indians not Nigerians.
“We are running just one of the schools now and we hope to open the
remaining 6. The reason we are yet to open the remaining 6 is because
we need 800 million naira per year to run each school and that is
because we give free uniforms, free food 2 children per room and so
on.
“As the Rivers State Governor, I am willing to assist to take any of the
missing school children or as many as we can negotiate into our
schools free of charge, “Amaechi said.
end the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northern part of Nigeria.
He rather suggested that agriculture and education were the keys to
solving the insurgency.
Amaechi also hinted that members of the Boko Haram are being
sponsored by unknown individuals.
“For me, I have said over and over that the solution to Boko Haram
does not rest in the military. It rests in education and agriculture.
“If anybody tells you nobody is funding Boko Haram, how are they
getting the money to buy weapons”, he said.
The state Governor made the comments at the event to formally
designate Port Harcourt as the UNESCO World Book Capital, 2014 held
at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt.
Amaechi, who is also the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, also
promised that free education will be offered to the Secondary school
girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram members.
He said the school girls will be made to attend the state owned ultra-
modern Secondary schools.
“Each of the Secondary school is 4.5 billion naira. As Rivers State
Government, anybody who wants to go to that school goes there free
of charge and as a step in having being admitted, you are going to be
given a laptop. There is no classroom with blackboard; its visual
classroom and it is being managed by Indians not Nigerians.
“We are running just one of the schools now and we hope to open the
remaining 6. The reason we are yet to open the remaining 6 is because
we need 800 million naira per year to run each school and that is
because we give free uniforms, free food 2 children per room and so
on.
“As the Rivers State Governor, I am willing to assist to take any of the
missing school children or as many as we can negotiate into our
schools free of charge, “Amaechi said.
