Group Wants Govt To Check Youth Restiveness

A Port Harcourt-based advocacy group, Advocacy for Peace, Good Governance and Social Justice, has called on the Rivers State Government to tackle youth restiveness frontally in rural communities to check the spate of violence and give the rural dwellers a sense of belonging.
The President of the group Mr. John Clement who made the call, while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt at the weekend, expressed regrets that rural dwellers were experiencing a lot of horror consequent upon the absence of security agents.
Clement urged the state government to encourage community policing to checkmate rampant outbreak of violence in rural communities in the state.
He said adequate security apparatus was crucial to the development of the state.
He noted that engagement of the youth in meaningful ventures would check their proclivity to crime.
The president pointed out that drug abuse armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism had become the bane of the youths in the state.
Mr. Clement urged government to provide jobs for the youth to discourage them from violence and hooliganism.
He noted that his organisation had been at the forefront of the campaign for peace in both rural and urban communities.
Clement told government to support their campaign in order for them to reach the hinterlands as well as the riverine communities of the state.
He stressed the need for peace building and proper orientation for young persons in the state.

Chidi Enyie