Rivers State Governor, Amaechi Promises Free Education For Missing School Girls

At the event to formally designate Port Harcourt as the UNESCO World Book Capital, 2014 which was held at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi who rather suggests agriculture and education as the keys to solving the insurgency as against military action which he says cannot end the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northern part of Nigeria reveals that members of the Boko Haram are being sponsored by unknown individuals. He said:

“For me, I have said over and over that the solution to Boko Haram does not rest in the military. It rests in education and agriculture.

“If anybody tells you nobody is funding Boko Haram, how are they getting the money to buy weapons?”

Amaechi, who is also the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, also promised that free education will be offered to the Secondary school girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram members. He said the school girls will be made to attend the state owned ultra-modern Secondary schools. He said:

“Each of the Secondary school is 4.5 billion naira. As Rivers State Government, anybody who wants to go to that school goes there free of charge and as a step in having being admitted, you are going to be given a laptop. There is no classroom with blackboard; its visual classroom and it is being managed by Indians not Nigerians.

“We are running just one of the schools now and we hope to open the remaining 6. The reason we are yet to open the remaining 6 is because we need 800 million naira per year to run each school and that is because we give free uniforms, free food 2 children per room and so on.

“As the Rivers State Governor, I am willing to assist to take any of the missing school children or as many as we can negotiate into our schools free of charge, “

I just love this Governor!

Source: DailyPost