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The Nigerian presidency has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP destroyed the educational sector of the country.

Presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie in a post on her social media page, while reacting to the arrest of Professor Adesanya Adelekan by the EFCC for N20 billion fraud, blamed the PDP for the problems faced in Education.

She wrote;

"Most of our young people who are around 30 years old, had their Primary, secondary or University Education under PDP. Now, thanks to EFCC, we now know why many of them have no proper education, no rational independent reasoning ability nor critical thinking skills.

How could they? Their schools were short-changed. Teachers were not continuously trained to keep abreast with modern methodologies of facilitating learning. Budgeted funds for equipment were diverted and shared by Politicians, Civil Servants and Publishers such as MacMillan Nigeria.

But today, the same people want our Education sector they left in tatters to be transformed overnight and compare to the Swiss, English and American educational systems in less than three years.

And when we expose them, they call it "Blame Game". To them, it's a game. To us its the painful reality of how they raped us.

How can you beat a child and deny it the rights to cry out! May their tongue cleave to the roof of their mouths, those who think or say we cannot refer to the evil PDP did to our nation. May they be in pain and be forbidden to cry out. AMEN. Thank you Official EFCC. Go get them!"

The EFCC, on Saturday, announced the arrest of Adelekan, who is a contractor for the Universal Basic Education Commission. His arrest is part of an investigation of the alleged ₦20bn fraud in UBEC, involving the supply of science and technical equipment and textbooks to 104 unity colleges.

It was gathered that Adelekan had earlier written statements during which he promised to supply evidence of the execution of the contracts against claims by principals of the unity schools that they only received between 20 and 30 percent of the equipment and textbooks purportedly supplied to them and for which the contractor collected full payment.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai said the days of the rump of Boko Haram terrorists are numbered, in spite of occasional attacks of Nigerian targets.

Buratai gave the assurance while addressing troops of the 8 Division at Monguno, headquarters of Monguno Local Government Area of Borno.

He, therefore, charged the troops to be determined in the efforts to stablilise their area of operation and finally overcome the Boko Haram challenge in the country.

“We must remain here to stabilise it.

“You all know that we have some few attacks here and there by the same elements – Boko Haram, but I assured you that their days are numbered.

“With your efforts, with your determination, we will finally overcome the Boko Haram challenge,’’ he said.

The chief of army staff noted that the creation of the 8 Division was a “major strategic decision’’ which had helped in addressing the challenge of Boko Haram terrorism in Borno north.

“I want to say that this division has lived up to its expectation of containing the Boko Haram challenge in this part of the country.

“What remains is for us to continue to stabilise and continue to operate, to prevent any element that may raise their heads in the future.

“This part of the country or this part of the region, especially the Lake Chad region has always been volatile.

“That is why members of the Lake Chad Commission created the Multinational Joint Task Force.

“So, we will see ourselves performing similar duties even after the final clearance of the Boko Hartam terrorists,’’ Buratai added.

He warned the troops to refrain from all acts of indiscipline as peace was gradually returning to the area and displaced people returning to their communities restart their lives.

The army chief further warned that those caught engaging in trading and extortion would be dealt with according to the law.

“Issues of indiscipline must also be checked within the division.

“As the people here gradually return to their communities, return to their businesses, they should be allowed to do their businesses free without any interference.

“Report of extortion or soldiers engaging themselves in trading activities with the people here must be resisted.

“We do not want any distraction. Trading in fish or cattle, if anyone – soldier, is caught, he is going to be dealt with according to the law.

“You are here to maintain the peace, you are here to perform your duties as soldiers; you are here not to trade or do any other business.

“Very soon, those that are in the IDPs camps will go back to their homes and re-establish themselves and the economic activities will increase.

“Do not fall into that temptation to be involved (in trading),’’ he further warned.

The army chief visited one of the camps in Monguno, holding 20, 000 IDPs and donated some relief materials, including food items, detergents and clothes to them.

He used the opportunity to address the elderly men and women IDPs in the camp, including the 700 recently rescued by troops during operations in the Chad basin.

A total of 2, 700 captives were rescued in the last one week.

While 700 were rescued on Tuesday, 2,000 were freed on Thursday morning after intensive artillery and aerial bombardment of the terrorists’ enclaves in the Lake Chad region.