Lawyer Blames Poverty For Rising Crime Wave

Rising criminal activities in Rivers State have made residents live in fear, a Port Harcourt-based lawyer has said.
Speaking with The Tide, Mr Victor  Elenwo in Port Harcourt recently said that the rise in crime was due to the rate of poverty, and cultism which were closely related.
According to Mr Elenwo, more than sixty percent of the youth are unemployed due to lack of job opportunities in Rivers State.
He also said that some uneducated youth who could not find any job opportunity indulged themselves in criminal activities which the state government should tackle.
“Again, the capital of our dear state is flooded due to the rural-urban migration, people moved to the city from rural areas in search of greener pasture all over the world and this has placed a heavy burden on the government of the day, Consequently the youth who are the most vulnerable have resorted to crime’’.
He also added that most of the vulnerable youth were lured through friends and peer groups influence to indulge in crime.
Elenwo stressed that the state government should solve the problem of joblessness by building industries and factories across the 23 local government areas in Rivers State.