{"id":38422,"date":"2015-05-08T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=38422"},"modified":"2015-05-08T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:00:29","slug":"what-the-north-east-dearly-needs-from-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/what-the-north-east-dearly-needs-from-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"What the North East Dearly Needs From Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21448\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Poverty, illiteracy and bad leadership are the greases that run Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast. In fact, Northeastern Nigeria has become the epicenter of Boko Haram insurgency because majority of the people in the region live in abject poverty induced by toxic leadership. Though, other national factors like, unequal distribution of resources, the sloppy handling of the conflict by the government at the centre and the absence of employment opportunities have also helped Boko Haram in its recruitments and indoctrinations.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21456\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21458\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21457\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">President-elect, Muhammad Buhari has promised to end Boko Haram. But the big question is after that, what next? Buhari must tackle the main condition that facilitated the growth of Boko Haram- abject poverty in the region. The average Nigerian in the Northeast is extremely a poor man.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21459\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21461\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21460\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Buhari will need to create productive employment for the region\u2019s teeming unemployed citizens and those engaged in unproductive-manual jobs. He can achieve this by taking a cue from China\u2019s Chairman Mao\u2019s development model of agriculturalisation, industrialization, and collectivization.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21463\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21462\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Nigeria\u2019s development efforts over the years have laid emphasis on urban development at the expense of rural development which has led to a substantial rise in inequality between Nigerians; this is why Boko Haram recruits with ease in the northeast.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21465\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21464\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Buhari, being a former governor in the defunct Northeast, is certainly one of those who understand better, the multifaceted challenges and the need for security, rehabilitation and development in the war-torn northeast. However, Buhari\u2019s development plans for the Northeast has to be tied to agriculture. Agriculture is the easiest way to touch and integrate the lives and livelihood of the millions of people in the Northeast and at the same time, quickly rehabilitate the land, the people and the local economy from the &#8216;scars&#8217; of Boko Haram\u2019s senseless war. The much-talked about and celebrated promise by Buhari to resume oil exploration in Lake Chad is a welcome development, but it cannot, within short time heal the wounds of the war in the Northeast.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21467\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21466\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Though industrialization entails both technology and profound social development, Buhari can also develop an agro-allied small scale industrialization programme for the Northeast with systemic as well as systematic measures to steer resources into the productive process. This will help in sustaining the agricultural sector and help in human capital development, including the rehabilitation of the destruction, dislocation, disruption and the exhaustions that are so obvious in many of the war-torn communities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21246\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21245\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Boko Haram have destroyed many schools and killed many school children in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. Thus the education problem in the northeast has become different from that of the rest of the country. The Northeast is facing the problem of large number of children out of schools; many destroyed schools and fear instilled in children and parents to send their wards to schools. Collaboration between the three states of Borno, Yobe , Adamawa and Federal government is required to tackle these big problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21313\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21312\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">China owes her development to Chairman Mao\u2019s \u2018Great Leap Forward\u2019 of agriculturalisation, industrialization, and collectivization. Though, we are talking about rehabilitation of war-torn communities with high rate of illiteracy and poverty, Buhari can still benchmark Chairman Mao\u2019s idea through agriculturalisation, small scale industrialization and human capital development. However, it took China decades to start reaping the benefits of the \u2018Great Leap Forward\u2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21326\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21251\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21250\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Zayyad I. Muhammad writes from Jimeta, Adamawa State, zaymohd@yahoo.com, 08036070980. He blogs at\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430900751564_21247\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zayyaddp.blogspot.com\/\">www.zayyaddp.blogspot.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty, illiteracy and bad leadership are the greases that run Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast. 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