[Music]
I pledged mind you my country to be
faithful loyal and honest to serve
Nigeria with all my strength at this
point of the Nigerian national pledge I
pause and I ask myself am i truly
self-made you are with all my strength
I’m a done well in no
you
that’s because we are speaking on an
international of you served your
countries with all your strength of me
as a collective entity sadler countries
well enough
a week
what is great
as a collective entity
our country
doing the effects of what is
as you can see
greetings
myself over and
meet eagle
over 300 Nigerian tribes we have
finding solutions to case we shall be
sure
it’s it’s what I have done
for so many years i i’ve always feel
that we keep the pulse of mind you
symbolic scenes
now I came with all this stories about
the northeastern Nigeria and my my my
speech is like was almost 15 to 20
minutes long but I was inspired by the
rest of the team the speakers and I
thought I’m going to dump this the truth
is I’m here today because we need to
team the sleeping giant in the Northeast
we need to team the sleeping giant in
the Northeast is very this is very very
passionate for me I died many times over
the first time I stepped my foot on
Kandra a local government area in the
sorry guys a local government area in in
Borno State of Origin 5 kilometers from
me degree situated in the north bank
situated in the north bank of the Nile
River one of the communities in Borno
State before insurgency that community
had a population of over 150 7000 now it
is almost as I tell my team and I
visited kondu ge’ local government to
ascertain and – in 2015 December of 2015
to ascertain the extent of the damage
and the hard work wreaked upon the
people of Borno State and the town was
ravaged and deserted at that time my
team also visited my team my team my
team and I also visited 10 other
communities in me degree state and
the extent of damage was not something I
could I can I can imagine right now
words aren’t adequately can’t adequately
equate the shock and pain I felt on that
trip imagine a town with a landmass
larger than that of Lagos State became a
ghost town with pellets of bullets
trailing the street embellished on the
walls I mean this crisis in Borno State
has led so many as as brought him so
many what I call it
even almost elated as brought in so many
humanitarian crises the significant
humanitarian crisis in Borno State as
affected an estimated number of fourteen
point eight million people and displaced
over 2.1 million people the
International Organization for Migration
IOM talked at the majority of the
internally displaced people Ironborn who
it’s over sixty four percent and
followed by Adama with over six point 52
percent you’ll be with over 6.1 percent
that 92 percent of 92% of the IDPs live
outside the camp
straining live a 92% of the IDPs live
outside the camp and living in who with
in host communities or in informal comes
straining the strained thereby straining
the the already limited resources of the
host communities and limiting the access
for government services humanitarian
needs overview talked about 7 million
people who are suffering the suffering
from the consequences of this crisis now
consequences of this
Rises which includes displacement
depravation and disease three point me a
trip three million people are reported
to be trapped in areas which are
inaccessible while 2.2 million people
have been displaced for many years
23,000 people the 23,000 children
between 3,000 children are separated
from their parents now I do not need the
slide and him oh but why I’m here is the
main reason why I’m here is to tell you
about the magnitude the exact magnitude
of the conflict that Boko Haram has cost
and we are talking about 473
unaccompanied children right now ready
to explode why am I talking about this
in the same in in the year in Cross
River State in the year to 2012 the
federal government hundred over Bekasi
to the Republic of Cameroon and when
they did that it left in itself
millions of people who are displaced
children mostly were unaccompanied and
we came into Natura
there were about 300 to 1000 plus this
children were then at that time where 18
years were less less than 18 years
fast-forward to ten years later this
children some of them are thes Colombo
boys they are the ones wreaking havoc
mercilessly in communities in that
region now we have we have a number of
over four hundred and seventy-three
thousand children in the northeast 743
thousand children and are not East this
is like sitting on a keg of camp and
clean with fire if we do not build
bridges to accommodate this children and
help them nurture them these are
children who were once living in homes
well snuggled in their community
we have you thought about that little
girl was not only comfortable in our
home and the terrorists attacked her
home taking Iowa and raping now
consistently remember the chibok girls
I’ve really thought about what about the
other boy who the entire family has been
butchered and killed right in front of
his eyes what kind of mindset do you
think that person has what kind of life
do you think that person has right now
I was approaching I was telling my
colleague as opportunity to be since one
of my job is to create rags to riches
and differential schools in the
Northeast and just to see how we can
find bridges we can build bridges to
eliminate the and at least reduce the
conscious the consciousness of these
people in the IDP so we went to this
camp and we asked the children most of
them more than 75% of them we asked them
what do you want to be in future and he
said seven more than eighty percent of
them said that they want her to be a
soldier and I asked us younger the
youngest when I said that’s the first
camp I went the same thing and the
second camp I went to see the show that
it was still the same thing and I was
like okay why do you want to be a
soldier he said on to be a soldier to
kill bukhara so imagine seven hundred
and forty three thousand of these people
remember this Colombo boys were not
faced with the hardship and of the have
work and the violence that was that was
happening in the Northeast so imagine
these people coming into our country
into our communities with this mindset
first gladly in the next five to ten
years now how do you will become so my
message today is lest I breathe a
building bridges
Lestat Lestat finding ways and do not
ever think that there is nothing we can
do or maybe no this is beyond me there’s
not
there’s something in our innate humanity
inside of us that there’s something each
and every one of us can do to erase this
thing most of us take our children are
brought to go and study what is the use
of that while we know that in their
future they do not have any peace they
are going to be dealing with 743
thousand people we may turn out to be
likes Colombo boys hi they’re going to
manage that what kind of future are we
looking at what kind of peace do you
think we envisage I was talking to a
certain name and he was saying that the
kind of the kind of problem Nigeria is
going to his dream sit up in China and
that the elia we all feel that this is
our collective responsibility to check
these things that are happening the
better for us thank you
[Applause]
I pledged mind you my country to be
faithful loyal and honest to serve
Nigeria with all my strength at this
point of the Nigerian national pledge I
pause and I ask myself am i truly
self-made you are with all my strength
I’m a done well in no
you
that’s because we are speaking on an
international of you served your
countries with all your strength of me
as a collective entity sadler countries
well enough
a week
what is great
as a collective entity
our country
doing the effects of what is
as you can see
greetings
myself over and
meet eagle
over 300 Nigerian tribes we have
finding solutions to case we shall be
sure
it’s it’s what I have done
for so many years i i’ve always feel
that we keep the pulse of mind you
symbolic scenes
now I came with all this stories about
the northeastern Nigeria and my my my
speech is like was almost 15 to 20
minutes long but I was inspired by the
rest of the team the speakers and I
thought I’m going to dump this the truth
is I’m here today because we need to
team the sleeping giant in the Northeast
we need to team the sleeping giant in
the Northeast is very this is very very
passionate for me I died many times over
the first time I stepped my foot on
Kandra a local government area in the
sorry guys a local government area in in
Borno State of Origin 5 kilometers from
me degree situated in the north bank
situated in the north bank of the Nile
River one of the communities in Borno
State before insurgency that community
had a population of over 150 7000 now it
is almost as I tell my team and I
visited kondu ge’ local government to
ascertain and – in 2015 December of 2015
to ascertain the extent of the damage
and the hard work wreaked upon the
people of Borno State and the town was
ravaged and deserted at that time my
team also visited my team my team my
team and I also visited 10 other
communities in me degree state and
the extent of damage was not something I
could I can I can imagine right now
words aren’t adequately can’t adequately
equate the shock and pain I felt on that
trip imagine a town with a landmass
larger than that of Lagos State became a
ghost town with pellets of bullets
trailing the street embellished on the
walls I mean this crisis in Borno State
has led so many as as brought him so
many what I call it
even almost elated as brought in so many
humanitarian crises the significant
humanitarian crisis in Borno State as
affected an estimated number of fourteen
point eight million people and displaced
over 2.1 million people the
International Organization for Migration
IOM talked at the majority of the
internally displaced people Ironborn who
it’s over sixty four percent and
followed by Adama with over six point 52
percent you’ll be with over 6.1 percent
that 92 percent of 92% of the IDPs live
outside the camp
straining live a 92% of the IDPs live
outside the camp and living in who with
in host communities or in informal comes
straining the strained thereby straining
the the already limited resources of the
host communities and limiting the access
for government services humanitarian
needs overview talked about 7 million
people who are suffering the suffering
from the consequences of this crisis now
consequences of this
Rises which includes displacement
depravation and disease three point me a
trip three million people are reported
to be trapped in areas which are
inaccessible while 2.2 million people
have been displaced for many years
23,000 people the 23,000 children
between 3,000 children are separated
from their parents now I do not need the
slide and him oh but why I’m here is the
main reason why I’m here is to tell you
about the magnitude the exact magnitude
of the conflict that Boko Haram has cost
and we are talking about 473
unaccompanied children right now ready
to explode why am I talking about this
in the same in in the year in Cross
River State in the year to 2012 the
federal government hundred over Bekasi
to the Republic of Cameroon and when
they did that it left in itself
millions of people who are displaced
children mostly were unaccompanied and
we came into Natura
there were about 300 to 1000 plus this
children were then at that time where 18
years were less less than 18 years
fast-forward to ten years later this
children some of them are thes Colombo
boys they are the ones wreaking havoc
mercilessly in communities in that
region now we have we have a number of
over four hundred and seventy-three
thousand children in the northeast 743
thousand children and are not East this
is like sitting on a keg of camp and
clean with fire if we do not build
bridges to accommodate this children and
help them nurture them these are
children who were once living in homes
well snuggled in their community
we have you thought about that little
girl was not only comfortable in our
home and the terrorists attacked her
home taking Iowa and raping now
consistently remember the chibok girls
I’ve really thought about what about the
other boy who the entire family has been
butchered and killed right in front of
his eyes what kind of mindset do you
think that person has what kind of life
do you think that person has right now
I was approaching I was telling my
colleague as opportunity to be since one
of my job is to create rags to riches
and differential schools in the
Northeast and just to see how we can
find bridges we can build bridges to
eliminate the and at least reduce the
conscious the consciousness of these
people in the IDP so we went to this
camp and we asked the children most of
them more than 75% of them we asked them
what do you want to be in future and he
said seven more than eighty percent of
them said that they want her to be a
soldier and I asked us younger the
youngest when I said that’s the first
camp I went the same thing and the
second camp I went to see the show that
it was still the same thing and I was
like okay why do you want to be a
soldier he said on to be a soldier to
kill bukhara so imagine seven hundred
and forty three thousand of these people
remember this Colombo boys were not
faced with the hardship and of the have
work and the violence that was that was
happening in the Northeast so imagine
these people coming into our country
into our communities with this mindset
first gladly in the next five to ten
years now how do you will become so my
message today is lest I breathe a
building bridges
Lestat Lestat finding ways and do not
ever think that there is nothing we can
do or maybe no this is beyond me there’s
not
there’s something in our innate humanity
inside of us that there’s something each
and every one of us can do to erase this
thing most of us take our children are
brought to go and study what is the use
of that while we know that in their
future they do not have any peace they
are going to be dealing with 743
thousand people we may turn out to be
likes Colombo boys hi they’re going to
manage that what kind of future are we
looking at what kind of peace do you
think we envisage I was talking to a
certain name and he was saying that the
kind of the kind of problem Nigeria is
going to his dream sit up in China and
that the elia we all feel that this is
our collective responsibility to check
these things that are happening the
better for us thank you
[Applause]
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