Through his school, Yusuf managed to recruit the youth to fight with him against the state. The state has failed to provide many of its citizens with their basic rights. A right to health, A right to an education, and a right to employment. The youth of Nigeria represent the citizens who most directly feel the wrath of an inadequate system, a system that has brought their advancement to a complete halt. Just graduating from universities, with degrees in engineering, medicine, law, etc., these youth are still left unemployed and unable to be active members of society. By Yusuf recruiting through his school, he is able to gather a tremendous amount of support as these youths are ready to overthrow a state that they believe has treated them so unjustly and is the cause of their current standstill.
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The restiveness among Nigerian youths and their ‘preferring the eloquence of violence’
(Babarinsa, 2003, p. 17) is a byproduct of many factors. First, there is the issue of marginalization
by the political elite, manifesting in unemployment, poverty, hunger and deprivation.
The British government’s Department for International Development (DFID) (2000) reports
that ‘poverty persists in Nigeria because of the historical and continuing mismanagement
of resources and corruption, particularly but not exclusively in the public sector’. For example,
members of a fundamentalist group called Boko Haram that struck in the northern part of
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the country in 2009 were reportedly drawn from disaffected youths—university students
and jobless graduates among them (Nigerian Compass, 2009, p. 3). (Ubhenin 2011)
This quote reiterates how the lack of social institutions and employment causes youths to be recruited into radical movements such as Boko Haram. This supports the idea that the rise of Boko Haram is due to frustrations with the government to not provide the Muslim North with adequate resources and overall failing to build a more developed North equal to that of the South.
Start: 2:07
End: 2:25
The restiveness among Nigerian youths and their ‘preferring the eloquence of violence’
(Babarinsa, 2003, p. 17) is a byproduct of many factors. First, there is the issue of marginalization
by the political elite, manifesting in unemployment, poverty, hunger and deprivation.
The British government’s Department for International Development (DFID) (2000) reports
that ‘poverty persists in Nigeria because of the historical and continuing mismanagement
of resources and corruption, particularly but not exclusively in the public sector’. For example,
members of a fundamentalist group called Boko Haram that struck in the northern part of
56 | Journal of Human Security, vol. 7, no. 1, 2011
the country in 2009 were reportedly drawn from disaffected youths—university students
and jobless graduates among them (Nigerian Compass, 2009, p. 3). (Ubhenin 2011)
This quote reiterates how the lack of social institutions and employment causes youths to be recruited into radical movements such as Boko Haram. This supports the idea that the rise of Boko Haram is due to frustrations with the government to not provide the Muslim North with adequate resources and overall failing to build a more developed North equal to that of the South.
Ubhenin, Oscar. "Youth Restiveness and Credible Alternatives to Violence in Nigeria." Journal of Human Security. 7. no. 1 (2011): 53-67.
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