Out-of-school children, potential tools for insurgents – OBJ

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the government’s prompt response to the over fifteen million out-of-school children as they are potential tools for the insurgents in the nearest future.

The former president while speaking at the International Symposium organised by the Centre for Human Security and Dialogue in Abeokuta to mark his eighty-fifth birthday noted that government should not be complacent in handling the threats connected to the issues of out-of-school children.

Our correspondent reports that the symposium had in attendance, the United Arab Emirates minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Shakbook bin Nayban and Former president of the Republic of Benin, Mr Nincephore Soglo among others.

His report.