The Bishop of Jalingo Dioceses of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Timothy Yahya, has attributed the security challenges to the high rate of unemployment in the country.
Yahya, said government should provide jobs for the teeming youths in Nigeria as a panacea toward solving the problem.
The bishop, who is the state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), explained that the bombings, the high profile assassinations and the indiscriminate attacks on places of worship were results of dissatisfaction among Nigerians.
He also decried the security network, saying: “it is facing internal challenges because of the manner of recruitments into the system.
“There are no proper scrutiny of the characters and backgrounds of those recruited,” he said, pointing out that this had made the security system vulnerable to people of questionable characters.
He decried the mode of appointment, saying that it had contributed a great deal to the backwardness of the country.
“I want to assure you that when the best brains are in the right place you will get the right results.
“What you can offer to this society does not matter; it is who you know that matters,’’ he said, noting:? “how do you secure a nation with a group of disenchanted security forces.
He said that Nigeria had more than it needed to develop and expressed regrets that only few persons were enjoying the resources of the country.
“In a country of plenty you only have a few people living and wallowing in riches, while majority of the people are living in poverty”.
Yahya noted that Nigeria was better secured in the early days of its independence than today.
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