Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina state has said that the children abandoned in the forest across the Northern region without education have now come back to fight the society as bandits.
Speaking over the weekend, while addressing his administration’s effort in curbing the activities of bandits in the state, Masari stressed the need for education.
Masari said, “We have problems now with the forest people because they have no education of any kind. They do not have Islamic education and they do not have Western education because they have been abandoned in the forest and forgotten. So these are the kind of children who have come up today, fighting us, fighting the society. ”
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“If we don’t do more to address it, what will come out of the forest in the next 20 years compared with what we have today, will turn out to be like a child’s play.
“Due to lack of education, they only know one pleasure, which is pleasure of the flesh and that is why they keep on producing children in large numbers.
“I was told this evening that somebody can mobilise over 350 armed men from the forest and we are talking about 350 men without formal schooling, neither Islamic nor Western and they are all married and have children.”
