President Muhammadu Buhari has tagged poverty and underdevelopment in the country as a tragedy.
The Nigerian President who had been a former military former Head of State who had given his citizens a glimpse into his life in a documentary titled ‘Essential Muhammadu Buhari’, which aired on Channels Television on Sunday, 1 December.
Comparing what growing up was like in Katsina back then, when he was in secondary school where people begged for food every Friday at the mosque, the president remarked that when he visited Liverpool in the United Kingdom on holidays, what he saw was in contrast to the situation back home.
Buhari also revealed that he doesn’t know his father and had lived like an orphan when he was in school and that he was well-behaved knowing that he had nobody to defend him if he got in trouble.
He then compared education back then to the situation right now, saying that back in his prime, the teachers were good and hardworking.
