{"id":5861,"date":"2012-11-05T08:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2012-11-05T08:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:23:25","slug":"fighting-boko-haram-with-education-the-yobe-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/fighting-boko-haram-with-education-the-yobe-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Boko Haram with Education: The Yobe Example"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mohammed El-Tahir Mohammed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The central locus of Boko Haram\u2019s ideology is an unreflective aversion to education or, as they like to call it, \u201cwestern education\u201d\u2014 or \u201cboko\u201d. But in Islam, which Boko Haram ironically claims to be inspired by, education is not limited by geographic designations. The prophet of Islam (PBUH) has enjoined Muslims to seek knowledge wherever it may be. A famous hadith quotes the prophet to have instructed Muslims thus: \u201cSeek knowledge even if you have to go as far as China, for seeking knowledge is a duty on every Muslim.\u201d<\/p>\n

China, in this quotation, is merely a symbolic referent.\u00a0 The hadith is basically saying knowledge has no geographic or epistemological locales. China is one of the farthest distances to Mecca and Medina where the prophet lived and preached. The prophet\u2019s exhortation to his adherents to seek knowledge even if it means going to as far a place as China is a powerful statement of the importance of education to Muslims. If the West is closer to Arabia than China is, it is ignorant to say that \u201cwestern education\u201d is forbidden.<\/p>\n

In any case, what we call \u201cwestern education\u201d today would have been inconceivable without the contributions of Muslim scholars in the early part of the 8th<\/sup> century when Europe was sunk in ignorance and superstition. Muslim scholars pioneered mathematics, a fact that is evidenced by the reality that the numbers we use in so-called western education today are Arabic numerals. Science and all forms of complex calculations would have been impossible with Roman numerals, which the West used before they encountered Arabic numerals. Muslim scholars also pioneered the science of astronomy, chemistry, medicine, philosophy, etc. So so-called Western education is actually a composite of which Muslim scholarship is an indispensable part.<\/p>\n

Muslim scholars of the 8th<\/sup> century studied everything they found from everywhere. It was they who discovered lost Greek scholarship, translated it into Arabic, and built on it in many significant ways. Ironically, Westerners recovered their lost intellectual heritage by translating Arabic translations of their ancestors\u2019 intellectual heritage. The works by Thales, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and other Hellenistic thinkers and philosophers would have been lost forever had Muslim scholars not found them, translated them, and left them in libraries. So, it is clear that Boko Haram is not only un-Islamic; it is scandalously anti-Islamic. Its ideology has no scriptural support in Islam\u2019s vast theological corpus.<\/p>\n

Yobe State governor Ibrahim Gaidam knows this only too well, being a well-educated man who started out as a classroom teacher and later became an accountant before venturing into politics. It is this knowledge that has informed his strategy of fighting Boko Haram with the arsenal of education. I can\u2019t think of a more effective way to dislodge this ignorant and murderous anti-Islamic sect in the long term than to strike at the core of their warped philosophy.<\/p>\n

Since Boko Haram\u2019s terror campaign started in Yobe State in 2011, the governor has intensified his investment in education.\u00a0 For instance, he has constructed 1,251 classrooms and toilets in different primary schools across the state at the cost of N1.495 billion. He has also distributed 1, 111, 808 books and assorted library materials to primary schools across the state. Realizing that infrastructure is central to the functioning of educational institutions, he distributed 21, 048 pieces of school furniture to primary schools in the state in addition to fencing and renovating scores of such schools.<\/p>\n

In order to strengthen the pedagogical core of Yobe State\u2019s primary education, Governor Gaidam drew from his experience as a classroom teacher and invested a lot of attention on teachers. For example, he has devoted money for the training of 3,200 English teachers to teach in the state\u2019s primary schools, and recruited 2,000 NCE teachers for primary schools. Governor Gaidam is also on record as the first governor in Nigeria to implement the N18, 000 Minimum Wage for primary school teachers.<\/p>\n

To whom much is given, as the saying goes, much is expected. Given the renewed favourable attention teachers have received since Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam became governor, there is need to also keep watch over their performance. In this regard, the governor increased the supervisory capacity of the State Universal Basic Education Commission by providing them with monitoring vehicles.<\/p>\n

Post-primary education received equal attention in the governor\u2019s \u201ceducational\u201d fight against Boko Haram. He has, for instance, renovated scores of crumbling secondary schools all across the state, and has undertaken a special renovation and upgrading of six female secondary schools. Two of these schools are located in each of the state\u2019s three senatorial districts. They are Government Girls\u2019 Secondary School Buni-Yadi, Government Girls\u2019 Secondary School Ngelzarma, Government Girls\u2019 Secondary School Potiskum, Government Girls\u2019 College Damaturu, Government Girls\u2019 Secondary School Dagona, and Government Girls\u2019 Secondary School Dapchi.<\/p>\n

Just like he did for primary schools, the governor also invested both financial and emotional resources in taking care of secondary school teachers. He has upped his recruitment drive of teachers, especially secondary school teachers who can teach science and mathematics, which have been universally accepted as the engine-rooms of every society\u2019s technological progress. And, for the first time in Yobe State\u2019s 21 years as a state, the governor bought and distributed 48 brand new 18-seat utility vehicles for secondary schools in the state.<\/p>\n

Higher education has not received any less attention than primary and secondary education.\u00a0 From 2007 when the Gaidam administration first started, over 1.3 billion was spent in scholarships to Yobe State students studying various courses in the nation\u2019s institutions of higher learning. Governor Gaidam also initiated a programme to sponsor exceptional Yobe State indigenes to study a wide spectrum of disciplines in some of the world\u2019s best universities.<\/p>\n

Yobe State made headlines last year when Governor Ibrahim Gaidam approved scholarships for 12 students from Yobe State \u2013eight of whom were male and four of whom were female \u2013to study medicine at Russian, Egyptian and Sudanese universities. As the governor\u2019s spokesman, Abdullahi Bego, wrote in a Daily Trust article, these students joined \u201cat least 200 others that the administration had sponsored earlier to acquire engineering and medical degrees in Turkey, UK, U.S and Malaysia.\u201d So, while he encouraged domestic higher education, he also isolated rare talents that could use some foreign training.<\/p>\n

The Yobe State University in Damaturu, which had been discontinued earlier because it lacked basic facilities to operate optimally, has now been so revamped and equipped that it has been dubbed the \u2018fastest growing university in Northern Nigeria\u2019 by former Ahmadu Bello University vice chancellor and present Gombe State University vice chancellor Professor Abdullahi Mahdi. It\u2019s no faint praise for a serving vice chancellor of a state university to admit that another state university other than the one he superintends is the fastest growing in a region where his university is also located.<\/p>\n

Some of the immediate effects of the governor\u2019s efforts are that Yobe State has been transformed from being one of the states with the lowest school enrollments in the nation to one that has witnessed one of the fastest school enrollments, according to the CEO of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). The state has also improved dramatically in its yearly performance in WAEC and NECO examinations. It is clear that many of the \u201cdelayed gratifications\u201d of the governor\u2019s efforts won\u2019t become apparent until several years from now.<\/p>\n

In more ways than one, the governor\u2019s obsessive push to put education in the front burner of Yobe State\u2019s priority isn\u2019t just an effective long-term strategy against Boko Haram; it is also a wise investment in the state\u2019s future. Many years from now when the state emerges as one of the hot spots for technological and scientific growth in Nigeria and eliminates the scourge of Boko Haram, we would certainly look back to these years and give credit to one governor\u2019s single-minded determination to fight ignorance with education. There is certainly a lot more that the governor can do. Our responsibility as indigenes and friends of Yobe State is to acknowledge the good work he is doing, encourage him to continue on this path, and suggest ways for him to improve on what he is doing.<\/p>\n

El-Tahir Mohammed<\/strong> sent in this article from Damaturu, Yobe State. Email yamuha2009@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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