Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District has identified 13 factors responsible for the emergence of the Boko Haram insurgency.

According to PREMIUM TIMES, the 13 factors include:

1. Manipulation of religion
2. Disconnect between government and the governed
3. Prevalence of social and economic injustices
4. Global terror epidemic – terror contagion
5. Collapse of public education
6. Massive unemployment
7. Prolification of arms and unguarded boarders
8. Under-development of the North by previous administrations
9. Human right abuses and extra-judicial killings
10. Economic collapse of the North
11. Capitalism breeds terrorism
12. Lack of unity and ethnic crisis in the North
13. Distortion of religious realities