President Muhammadu Buhari has noted that Nigeria may face
another crisis in form of Boko Haram if the two million people, mostly women
and children, displaced by the insurgents were not properly taken care of.
The president was speaking yesterday at a meeting with the
world leader of Tijjaniya Islamic Movement, Sheikh Sharif Ibn Mohammad, at the
State House, Abuja.
Buhari said, “Government is faced with the problem of
repairing schools, health centres and whole towns.
“We must repair their schools and recruit teachers,
otherwise, they will become tomorrow’s Boko Haram.”
The President further thanked the religious group for the
prayers they had rendered for three days in Yola, Adamawa state for the
recovery of the economy and peace in the country.
He also told the group that the problem oil production was
experiencing in the country and in the global market, had forced the imperative
of agriculture on Nigerians.
He added, “We are learning the hard way. The mistake we made
was to abandon agriculture. We came at a time of difficulty the country has
never experienced since the Civil War.”
By John Owen Nwachukwu
