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Education Is Fundamental In Defeating Boko Haram, Buhari Tells ICC Prosecutor

  President Muhammadu Buhari believes education is a vital component in the war against insurgents such as Boko Haram. Advertisement He expressed this belief while … Continue reading Education Is Fundamental In Defeating Boko Haram, Buhari Tells ICC Prosecutor


President Muhammadu Buhari receives in audience Karim Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor International Criminal Court (ICC) in State House on April 21, 2022. Bayo Omoboriowo/State House
President Muhammadu Buhari receives in audience Karim Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor International Criminal Court (ICC) in State House on April 21, 2022. Bayo Omoboriowo/State House
President Muhammadu Buhari receives in audience Karim Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor International Criminal Court (ICC) in State House on April 21, 2022. Bayo Omoboriowo/State House
President Muhammadu Buhari receives in audience Karim Ahmad Khan, Prosecutor International Criminal Court (ICC) in State House on April 21, 2022. Bayo Omoboriowo/State House

 

President Muhammadu Buhari believes education is a vital component in the war against insurgents such as Boko Haram.

He expressed this belief while receiving the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karin Ahmad Khan, at State House, Abuja on Wednesday.

According to the President, the Boko Haram insurgency has neither religious nor ethnic underpinning, and with adequate education, majority of Nigerians now know the truth.

“God is justice. You can’t kill innocent people, and shout; Allah Akbar (God is great). It’s either you don’t know that God at all, or you are simply being stupid,” he said as quoted in a statement signed by spokesperson Femi Adesina.

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“To say Western education is unacceptable (Haram) is very fraudulent. That is why we are fighting them, and educating the people. And we are succeeding a lot. We came to office when things were very bad, but we are educating the people. Education is fundamental. Religion and ethnicity are out of it. Some people have just made it a lifestyle to cause confusion, destruction and death.”

The ICC Prosecutor said extremism was like cancer, which spreads and can also recede, noting that what Boko Haram does in collaboration with Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), “is perversion of religion.”

He said the ICC believes in complementarity, “which promotes collaboration, as against confrontation,” counseling Nigeria in concert with other Sahel/Lake Chad basin countries to get the United Nations Security Council to refer the atrocities committed by the terrorist groups operating in the region to ICC, for investigation and subsequently trial.