Omoyele Sowore, former presidential candidate of the AAC, has urged the government to focus on improving the lives of almajiri and out-of-school children in Northern Nigeria to prevent them from turning to crime and terrorism in the future.
In a video shared by Symfoni TV, Sowore said he spent time studying Abubakar Shekau, the former leader of Boko Haram. He said Shekau’s frustration started from seeing how children of the rich celebrated birthdays with cakes and parties in Maiduguri, while poor children like himself had nothing to eat or celebrate.
Sowore said the first people Shekau and other Boko Haram members attacked were retired generals and wealthy elites in Maiduguri because the group believed these individuals had abandoned them while caring only for their own families
In Sowore’s words: “I understudied Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, the most vicious of them that we know before he was killed. His first grouse with the system, after the other guy was killed, was that in Maiduguri the children of the rich would get cake to eat when they see them doing birthday but them they had nothing. And when they grew up they turned their anger against the rich. The first set of people they killed were retired generals. The elites in Maiduguri were the first targets of Boko Haram because they have a generational anger against them that they abandoned them while their took care of their own kids.
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