The Emir of Kano Sanusi II says forceful marriage of young
girls as well as the exposure of youths to social media and the internet
is to a large extent responsible for the increased rate of youths
joining the insurgency group, Boko Haram. The Emir said this while
delivering his lecture at the 10th Annual Ramadan Lecture organized
by Voice of Nigeria (VON), NTA and FRCN in Kaduna yesterday July 4
"Are
we still living in the era which father can force their daughters
into marriage without their permission? Yes we are. Early marriage, yes
we are in Nigeria. And it is hurting and destroying our society. We are
the ones to address these social issues because they are problems. And
you know from taking her out of school and forcing her into
marriage without education result to having a child from her who does
not have a mother that can give the child proper training. That is a
child that gets on drugs, Indian hemp or joins Boko Haram. All these
things are connected. We have to face these challenges. Information
technology and emergence of internet and social media,
today youth go on the computer and they learn Islam from Facebook and
twitter.
They learn Islam from videos, they watch on Facebook and after
14 to 15 hours watching new things, they need to become jihadists. They
get up and go to Iraq or Syria or somewhere and join the group.
And there are no controls. Right inside your house, your son can be
sitting upstairs in the bedroom getting indoctrinated into becoming an
extremist without your knowledge. We need to watch what our children
watch. And we need to talk to them. If we do not give them the correct
Islamic education, they will find the wrong education on the internet" he
said
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