An Abuja-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Save De Masses, has warned Nigerian political leaders to desist for using the country’s youth for political thuggery, riots and other social vices.
In a press release made available to Leadership, the national president of the association, Comrade Otu Isaac Osang, warned that Nigerian governments at all levels should create gainful employment for the youths rather than allowing them to be used by selfish politicians to kill innocent people and destroy property.
The NGO also cited the recent United Nations report which stated that unemployment had played a major role in Nigeria’s political situation and most of the communal, religious and political crises in the country.
“Another factor that is causing problems among the youth of this country is religion and it tends to separate the North from the South. So, it is our earnest desire to break those sentiments among the Nigerian youth and to create an enabling environment for us all to dwell in,” the statement further reads.
The statement also urged the federal government to involve the youth in the country in most of its policies and programmes, and stressed that Nigerian youth feel cheated as a result of their absence in most of the government policies.
Save De Masses, an NGO that is made up of Nigerians from all part of the country also advised the youth to see themselves as role models who have the ideas that will change the face of the earth.
According to the statement: “The youth in this country should know that one person they kill today will never be replaced and his dream and vision have also been killed the moment he dies as a result of political riots or any other social vice”
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