Atiku reacts to UNIMAID bomb blast, says its worrisome and dangerous
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Nigeria’s Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the suicide bomb attack on a mosque at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), describing it at as a dangerous development.
In a statement released by his media office in Abuja on Monday, 16 January, 2017, the Turakin Adamawa noted that, following the February 2014 attack on the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, in which 40 male students were murdered, as well as the April 2014 kidnapping of over 200 girls from their school dormitory in Chibok, Nigeria has not experienced any such act of terrorism perpetrated within a school.
“The attack on UNIMAID is not just about a bomb exploding in a mosque,” Atiku says. “Once again, education in the northeast of Nigeria is under attack.”
Atiku added that a lack of education was one of the most alarming threats to security in the northeast, as many of the terrorists have been shown to be people who have either never had the chance or ability to read the Koran for themselves and interpret the tenets of Islam beyond the false teachings of their terrorist commanders.
“A sound education will provide our youth with the ability to analyse and make informed decision, an opportunity that many young people in the northeast of Nigeria do not have at present, making it easy for false teachers to control them.
“We cannot afford to be complacent now or in the future,” he says.
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