Boko Haram: Borno gov opens up •Explains why state is fertile for sect •Says region isworld's poorest •Names sect's base•Traces crisis to imposition of minority over majority opinion

Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has shed lighton why the state is conducive for activities of the Boko Haram sectterrorizing the state and other neighbouring ones.
The governor, who traced the history of Islam, fundamentalism and economic challengesof the state, disclosed these in a statewide broadcast to the peopleof the state on Saturday.
He said the World Bank had described the regionof the world to which the state and North-East Nigeria fall as the poorest and most challenged parts of the world, a development that makes the area fertile activities of such dreaded sects.
“The World Bank has described the central region of the Savannah-Sudan, comprising of the areas covered by the North-East Political Zone of Nigeria, the Republic of Chad, Eastern portion of Niger Republic, Northern Cameroons and the Dafur Region of the Republic of Sudan, as being one of the poorest regions on earth.
“The region has very little and mainly dilapidated infrastructure, a population with poor or ill-education and highestlevel of unemployment, especially among the youths, little or poor authority for mobilisation of people for self-help, a large number of hungry and angry population, inept and bankrupt leadership, little or complete absence of government control, network and other factors for economic progress and social harmony of the area.
“The foregoing scenarioprovides a fertile groundfor the emergence of radical organizations, such as the Janjaweed Militia of the Dafur region and Jama’atul Ahlul Sunnah Lidda’wati wal Jihad, often called Boko Haram by the Nigerian media, in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria,” he said.
While appealing to members of the sect tostop the ‘war’ against their fellow citizens, Governor Shettima, gave assurance of the readiness of his administration to dialogue with all aggrieved sections of the society, adding thathe was personally pained by the turn of events in the state, as a bonafide indigene of Maiduguri. Read more http://www.tribune.com.ng/sun/front-page-articles/4515-boko-haram-borno-gov-opens-up-explains-why-state-is-fertile-for-sect-says-region-is-worlds-poorest-names-sects-base-traces-crisis-to-imposition-of-minority-over-majority-opinion