Crime’ll Only Reduce When Youths Are Empowered-Group

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Youth Educational Needs And Empowerment Initiative (YENEI), Fidelis Adizua, has said that crime will only be on the decline when the youths are empowered.
Adizua said this during the South South General Assembly conference of the body in Port Harcourt recently.
According to him,if youths are engaged,  crime will reduce in the society.
He said it was against this background that the organisation was organi-sing a skills acquisition programme for youths across the country.
Adizua also said one million youths would be empowered in the first phase of the event.
He  further pointed out  that the training will be more on agriculture and urge those involved to take the programme seriously.
The group’s CEO, also called on government to create a conducive environment for the group to operate as foreign partners were willing to support the group to succeed.
Also speaking, the South South coordinator of the organisation, Pastor Edidion Okpo,  said that  millions of youths had been driven into crime because of lack of jobs.
He further urged youths in the zone to ensure that they  involve actively in the programme.
It would be recalled  that security experts had  repeatedly linked crime and its attendant aftermath to lack of employment  and joblessness among young people.

By: King Onunwor