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Recruit Unemployed Youth In Fight Against Banditry, Senator Tells FG
Sani Musa, senator representing Niger East, says Nigeria daunting unemployment problem could be leveraged on to address the perennial insecurity in the country.
Musa called on security agencies to take advantage of Nigeria’s teeming unemployed youth population to assist in the fight against banditry.
He made the call he featured on a Channels Television programme on Wednesday.
He was reacting to the recent abduction of students, staff and family members from Government Science College in Kagara, Niger state.
he maintained that governments across all levels need to do more to improve security, adding that it is the duty of the armed forces to locate the hideout of bandits and flush them out.
“This banditry we’re talking about in the axis of north-west to Niger state to north-central has been there for over seven years now. What do we need to do? We have a lot of youths; we have a generation that is being wasted. We have youths that have graduated with no jobs, nothing. Why can’t we make use of that? Why can’t you strive to engage and recruit in order to face the security situation in this country? Why can’t we do it?” he queried.
“Why can’t we get these funds, buy these weapons, equip these armed forces? Why can’t we make ourselves ready, and go into the bush to trace these people?”
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