By Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today

The senior Archbishop in northern Nigeria has demanded that the activities of Boko Haram be acknowledged as examples of Islamic extremism rather than the results of poverty.

Referring to the recent bombing in Potiskum, Archbishop of Jos Ben Kwashi said it was incorrect to argue that insurgency in the North of Nigeria is fuelled more by poverty than by Islamic extremism.

Responding to news reports where this has been claimed, the Archbishop said such a claim was "to undermine the truth with the same old story we hear again and again from those unwilling to face the connected and organised global jihadist network we face today."

He said poverty could not explain the death by suicide bomb of 40 Muslim school children in Potiksum.

"It does not explain the abduction, forced conversion, and forced marriage of some 200 girls in Chibok.

"To say that this is the result of poverty and corruption is to play down the evil of Boko Haram, and their form of Islam - an Islam we do not know from the Koran, or from the Muslims of my generation."

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