Youth Leaders Decry Special Empowerment For Militants

As part of measures to tackle the growing spate of insecurity and violence in the society, a youth leader in Rivers State, Hon Daniel Saro Nwibari has called for the empowerment of law abiding youths, rather than giving special empowerment to militants.
Nwibari, a former Councillor in Ward 12, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, made the call while speaking with The Tide in an interview in Port Harcourt, recently.
He decried the tendency of according special development priority to militants, noting that such policies were a means of encouraging youths to carry arms.
According to him, corporate organisations should assist government by providing special incentive for young entrepreneurs and especially law abiding youths to enhance self-sufficiency and enterprise development.
He frowned at a situation where young graduates and people with special skills roam the streets without functional economic activities, while militants and touts are given economic empowerment.
According to him, most of the money given to these militants are not properly deployed for sustainable benefit and as such they resort to their old ways after squandering the resources.
He also called for greater investment in agricultural programmes to boost food sufficiency in the society.

Taneh Benemene