With the enrolment of 1.5 million out-of-school children in primary and secondary schools in Borno State, Governor Babagana Zulum has taken a visionary and empathetic action, as a leader, to confront a major repercussion of terrorism around his domain. No doubt, Borno State has suffered, probably more than any other state, in the destruction trailing the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. His insistence that the children must be educated despite their poor background, the onslaught of Boko Haram terrorists against western education, and the fact that many of the pupils have been orphaned by the senseless insurgency in the northern part of the country is worthy of support.
Nevertheless, Zulum should know that the war is not over, and victory is still far. It will take a lot more than the rehabilitation of schools to convince and persuade students and parents alike of the necessity of schooling. The destruction…
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