Abe Advises Nigerian Youth Against Thuggery

The Senator representing Rivers South-East in National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, has advised youths in the country to shun thuggery and its perpetrators in order to have a better life in future.
Abe made the call while speaking with newsmen yesterday in Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers and described politicians arming youths with dangerous weapon as evil.
He said, “If you see anybody calling you, buying you guns, machetes, giving you something to take so that he can be something, those are evil people.
“Nobody should call you and say you are a youth, come and fight, come and kill somebody; come and attack House of Assembly; come and attack this one.
“Anybody who loves you and is calling you at this time should call you in a manner that what he is calling you for will be good for you today and good for you tomorrow.”
Abe, also the chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), called for ethical re-orientation of the youths to assist them in the fight against vices.
He said that the orientation had become necessary because the activities of some present crop of politicians in the country seemed to be sending wrong signals to the younger generation.
Abe also said that the teaching of Mathematics should be intensified in the country in order to ensure that the country’s leaders abide by mathematical calculations in their daily activities.
The senator said, “Some of the things we have been doing as leaders is beginning to confuse some of the young people. They don’t know what Mathematics is anymore and they don’t know what total is greater than the other.”
Abe narrated a story of when his father was a state Assembly member and they wanted to impeach Governor Melford Okilo then, how they were struggling to get the two-third majority.
He said that without the two-third majority of the members in consent, no impeachment would succeed in the country.
“Nobody ever thought that politicians will go and take an incomplete number to impeach somebody; it is not done in this country,” the Senator said.
Abe, however, urged Rivers people not to be distracted by the political situation in the state, but to support the present administration as it had achieved a lot in human and infrastructure development.