Nigeria: Yuguda - Western Education Responsible for Boko Haram

1 October 2011

Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda Friday blamed failure of government to provide needed jobs and good life for teeming graduates of the country and "partly the system of education which is English" as reasons why extremist religious Boko Haram group is wreaking havoc on the country through their spate of bombings.

Yuguda, who fielded questions from State House Correspondents, stopped short of justifying the activities of Boko Haram when he said the system of education make the graduates and some with Master degrees unemployed, frustrated and finally hitting back at society.

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