By Godwin Oghre

EFFURUN—DELTA State Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, has said Boko Haram insurgents are not Nigerians but hired external militants from neighboring countries to disrupt the present government of Nigeria.

Prof Muoboghare spoke, yesterday, at the silver jubilee anniversary of Retired Army, Navy and Air-Force Officers Club of Nigeria, RANAO,  in Effrun Army Barracks, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.

Muoboghare who delivered a lecture, entitled, ‘’Nigeria Security Challenges, The Way Forward,” at the ceremony noted that “it is not the culture of Nigerians to kill themselves, Nigerians are not known to be suicide bombers, the average Nigerian man is afraid of death and loves his family members and friends and cannot plan to kill them or himself.

The people that are planting bombs in parts of the North are not Nigerians. Those who strap explosive devises around their waist are not Nigerians they are external miscenaries hired into this country by selfish politicians who want to disrupt the government of the day.”

The commissioner chided government attitude of harming, maiming and shooting of the youths in Niger Delta region who have mastered the technique of refining petroleum products and argued that the youths needed to be encouraged rather than been killed. According to him, if the youths were encourage, the importation of petroleum products would be halted and the country could have access to its own refined petroleum products and the youths would be gainfully employed.