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| The plight of children living |
"My father was old and unemployed. My mother worked as braided hair, but she did not earn enough money to take care of us," Bello Shehu 12 year old boy told an international news agency. Shehu lot among adolescents in Nigeria to drop away money worries for life.
In fact, Shehu or other children want to go to school is a big problem, despite the Borno State as planned support uniforms and free education. Simple, schools in Nigeria are targeted destruction of Boko Haram.
Works with goals against Western-style education, extremist groups are often bombed schools, hospitals, homes ... Borno State alone, 1,357 schools have been attacked and he was only 400 in number reopened the campaign to rebuild the state's education, according to an international news agency.
French news agency also led UN figures show that 10.5 million children out of school in Nigeria, the largest number in the world.
Consequently, from what Boko Haram gives the status of children enslaved.
In the line of people fleeing areas controlled Boko Haram, Yola town area is where the "farmer" is ready to sell children to 500 USD or $ 300, the price for a 12 year old girl "could keep children, cleaning, house cleaning ".
CNN also led notification from the Nigerian government said more than 8 million children currently in the form of forced labor.
The pitiful threat
Lost in society too much danger, children in Nigeria accidentally also facing the risk of thrown into sin.
An international news agency for children in Nigeria as a ticking time bomb that can explode at any time if they fall into the path created by Boko Haram.
Government of Nigeria, is under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, can make a lot crackdown on Boko Haram, but seemed powerless to bring education back to the children.
"If there is no quick solution now, in 10 years of the Boko Haram insurgency will be the play of the child", Dongel Mohammed, who runs a committee to rebuild schools in the state of Borno said .
"The education of children is not vulnerable and easy to fall into the trap crime. Many children, youth are joining Boko Haram because of ignorance, poverty and lack of education. If there is no solution we considered was sitting on a time bomb pile, "he said Dongel.
Or poverty, or join Boko Haram, or sold into slavery, many children in Nigeria is almost no other way to save his fate, simply because they inherently have fallen into a spiral where fate is no longer in the hands of ...
