Some experts and stakeholders have called on the governments at all levels to take the issue of job creation and education seriously to bring an end to the current insecurity situation in Nigeria.
The stakeholders believe that youths constitute the bulk of the society, therefore become willing tools for insurgency and other societal vices if not educated and gainfully employed.
This submission was made at the public presentation of a book titled “Growing Delinquency” in Abuja at the weekend.
One of the speakers at the public presentation and the Chairman of the event, Alhaji Munzali Dantata, insisted that parents must also do more in the raising up of children, adding that the book sound the alarm of the growing deliquencies in the nation.
Dantata said: “All the problems we are facing today not only in this country but around the world is interrelated and they have to do with the changing times due to technology which is also in part responsible for climate change because of human intervention with matchines which in turn causes global warming and that causes unemployment.
“Unemployment is now causing insecurity with youths becoming delinquent. The problems are interrelated. Once there are jobs created, that will also directly affect the issues of insecurity because people will be gainfully employed whether in business or other fields.
“We are going through very trying times and facing a lot of challenges as a nation and that is what the book trys to address purposely for the youths as well as the parents of the youths who are supposed to show them the way.
“From the title ‘Growing Deliquency’, the author gives a wake up call that hope is not lost but then, there is the need for action to be taken at the right time so that direction is given to the youths who are supposed to be the leaders of tomorrow,” he said.
Speaking on the book, the author, Nuhu Danladi Cheshi, said, “We are faced with a lot of challenges in Nigeria today and these are delinquent issues which would have been curbed. A well trained person will not go about bombing people, a well trained person will know how to treat the other person better and that is what education would adress.”
Reviewing the 130 paged book, National Secretary of rhe Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), represented by the Chairman FCT Council, Emmanuel Ogbeche observed that the book was the writer’s contribution to the growing search for peace in the country.
