By Donald Iorchir
Concerned by the need to address the high rate of unemployment, some residents of Kwali Area Council have drawn an agenda for the chairman, Joseph Shazhin, on how to tackle the menace.
Mrs. Gladys Luka Homokade, in an interview at Kwali town Abuja FCT, stressed the need for the provision of jobs for the youths in order to reduced social vices.
Homokade believe that if the Council administration under the leadership of the chairman come up with programmes that would assist youth get employment, the rate of crime would be reduced.
She said engaging the unemployed youths only during politics was bringing different crimes across the area as many have nothing to do after they had been used and dumped by politicians.
“These youths have to be engage in one way or the other, no matter how little, this will help in reducing crime in this area council”
She urged the chairman to work with major stakeholders and initiate petty programmes that would have engaged the youths, especially those without job.
She identified Kwali market as a major place of relaxation on daily bases, saying “anytime you come here, you will see them under the trees sleeping.
“Most of them, after taking of their drugs, planned how to go about robbing innocent people”, she added.
Zakari Samtani urged the council chairman with other well-to-do stakeholders in Kwali to bring programmes that unemployed youths would beneti.
Samtani said if those that matters in the area live up to the expectations, as elite, crime wave would be reduced, saying: “Most of these youths have become problem to us in Kwali because the main people don’t care about them.
“It’s only when politics come that they will be empowered to work for the politicians, after it, nothing for them to engage on. There should be more focus on how to discard the idea of matured people staying without anything to do” he said.
