President Goodluck Jonathan
President
Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday indicted some unnamed state governors in
the north-eastern part of the country over the spate of insecurity in
the zone that has left hundreds of people dead.
He said the unnamed governors who turn
around to attribute the violence to bad leadership failed in their
responsibility of providing basic primary and secondary education for
the children.
He said the uneducated children who form
an army of unemployed and unemployable youths are now tools in the hands
of miscreants who feed and arm them to kill innocent citizens.
Jonathan spoke at the Peoples Democratic Party’s North East Unity Rally held in Bauchi, Bauchi State.
He said while the Federal Government was
doing its part by providing tertiary education to teeming Nigerian
youths, state governments must also play their roles and stop pointing
accusing fingers at him.
He said he played his role well to end
insecurity in Bayelsa State when he was the deputy governor and the
state governor, hence he expected state governors to play their roles
too.
He added that north-eastern states had
lost more people than any other part of the country in the violence
orchestrated by the fundamental Islamic sect, Boko Haram because people
refused to do the right thing.
Meanwhile, Jonathan on Saturday also
said the problems of youth restiveness and insecurity within the African
continent might have been caused by “external forces” working against
the progress of the region.
Jonathan was not specific on what he
meant by “external forces” but stated however, that the growth which the
continent had recorded within the last few years might be a major
reason for people who are envious of the region to cause instability.
He stated these in Abuja at the opening
session of the Seventh joint annual meetings of the Economic Commission
of Africa conference of African ministers of finance, planning and
economic development and the African Union conference of ministers of
economy and finance.
In a related development, the Katsina
State Government said it had concluded arrangements to convene a special
security meeting with neighbouring Zamfara on ways to fight crime and
attacks on villages.
Gov. Ibrahim Shema said this at a meeting with his Zamfara counterpart, Gov. Abdulaziz Yari, at the Government House in Gusau.
He expressed concerns over increasing
criminal activities, where large number of heavily armed hoodlums
invaded villages, maimed and killed several community members.
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