Bad Leadership Reason For Boko Haram Insurgence Says Obama
President Barrack Obama today said that bad governance is responsible for Boko Haram in Nigeria, according to the United States President while addressing a town hall meeting heaped blame on governments on their inability to train the youths in relevant fields.
According to Obama he said; “in terms of human capital and young people, I think the greatest investment any country can make, not just an African country, is educating it’s youth and providing them with the skill to compete in a highly technological, advanced world economy”.
Adding further Obama said; “countries that do not do that well will not succeed. This is a problem in the United State and not just a problem in Africa.”
“Across board we are having a rethink in education and work force training. And one of the things we want to do is to partner with a country like Nigeria and identify ways that we can provide direct value added, whether it is in helping to train teachers or helping to incorporate technology into the education process. There are some excellent plans that sometimes we are doing country by country depending on the country plan. But this is a scenario where I would like to get input from young people in terms of what they think will work,” Obama said.
While giving kudos to his government for dealing core extremist groups such as Al Qaida and Bin Laden he said; “There is no doubt in the progress we have made in dealing with some extremist groups, for example core Al Qaida and Bin Laden” stressing that “they have been greatly diminished.”
While noting that;“What is also true is that in some ways the problem has also metastasized, we have more regional terrorist organisations like Boko Haram in Nigeria espousing an extremist ideology, showing no regard for human life”.
He admitted that despite not having a transnational capacity like the other organisations “they are doing great harm in Africa and in the Middle East and in South Asia”.
As he also blamed the upsurge in what he described as; “countries are not delivering for their people and where there sources of conflict and underlining frustrations that have not been adequately dealt with. We have to build institutions a lot of what we talked about in terms of responsiveness, governance and democracy. Those things become defence mechanisms against terrorism; they are the most important defence against terrorism.”
Obama also added that the only thing that can solve insurgency is; “give people opportunity, education and resolve conflicts through regular democratic processes, the less likely they are to take root. we can provide advice, training and in some cases equipment. America will not “stand by and watch while our embassies are being attacked our people are in vulnerable situations.”
