Former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd) recently said that insecurity has set education in the northern part of the country backward by 20 years.
The former Head of State said this while receiving officials of the Niger State chapter of the Campaign for Democracy and Human Rights led by its state chairman, Comrade Abdullahi Jabi at his Minna uphill residence in Niger State.
According to Abdulsalami, many children of school age can not go to school while those in school are being kidnapped.
He went on to say some heartless persons keep kidnapping their children and they forget they would have children too.
Will they be happy if their children are kidnapped and traumatised, he lamented.
Abdulsalami also blamed the poor economic situation in the country and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He added that the COVID-19 pandemic became a stumbling block to the world and brought a setback to all their programmes.
More so, he recalled how he was locked outside the country for over nine months, resulting in the setback most of his plans faced.
