Education Is The Only Solution To Poverty In The North – Lawmaker

Members of the House of Representatives, have said education is the only solution to the problems deviling the North over the region’s poor attitude to education.
Benjamin Kalu, Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja, saying the North had not fully taken advantage of the quota system to develop itself.

Recently, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, said some of the problems facing the North include poverty, millions of out-of-school children, malnutrition, drug abuse, Almajiri, and the Boko Haram insurgency.
But supporting the emir, Kalu said, “the purpose of the federal character element of the constitution is to ensure the distribution of projects and opportunities in the country. If the implementation is faulty, that is where complaints should come.
“If you benefit from that particular provision of the constitution without being fully prepared for it, you are under-developing yourself. The problem is not with the law, the problem is with those who are accessing the benefits of the law.”
The House of Representatives spokesman said federal character did not mean that those who  were not qualified should occupy positions.
Kalu stated, “I agree with him (Sanusi). If you access any opportunity that you are not qualified for, you are under-developing yourself and the country. One, you will not be able to fulfil the demands of that office. Two, you will deny those who are supposed to benefit from that office, what they are entitled to.”
The House spokesman noted that what Sanusi said was in the interest of the North and any other region where the issues he raised were.
He said, “The benefit of what the Emir is suggesting, to be sincere, is for the growth of the geopolitical zones in the North. I fully agree with him that the net gift we can give to any underdeveloped or undeveloped region in this country is education.