Peace Corps Explains Rise In Boko Haram Insurgency...

The National Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Dr Dickson Akoh, has explained why there has been an increase in Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria.

According to Akoh, the high level of incitement and hate speeches among politicians who mobilised youths to achieve their aims after which they dumped them have been responsible for the upsurge in insurgency in the country..

The commandant made this statement at the weekend while briefing journalists in Abuja on the outcome of the United Nations meeting on integrating crime prevention and criminal justice in the post 2015 developmental agenda in New York.



Akoh stated that: “Hate and inciting speeches cannot give victory in an election but only good manifesto and issue-based campaign can guarantee success. National interest should be paramount in the minds of the politicians.”

He therefore advised politicians to avoid using youths and students platforms as tools for achieving their political agenda and urged students to be neutral and stop being partisan.

The Boko Haram insurgents are believed to have killed tens of thousands of innocent lives in Nigeria since they started their insurgency in 2009.

Only at the weekend, no fewer than nine people were reported to have been killed in two separate attacks that happened in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.

It was gathered that the first incident occurred on Saturday evening along the Eastern-Bypass area of the Marine Base claimed four lives, while the second occurred some few hours later, along a popular hotel in Oroworukwo Community in the D/Line area of Port-Harcourt.

The Nigerian Tribune reported that the assailants, suspected to be members of a cult group, stormed a restaurant close to the bridge along the road and shot four persons dead, while others sustained bullet wounds.

An unnamed source said the corpses were carried away by policemen who arrived at the scene shortly after the bandits had escaped.