- Governor Samuel Ortom has stated that the various agitations in Nigeria, including the IPOB agitation, is caused by youth unemployment
- He noted that majority of the Biafran agitators, and even those in the Arewa coalition, were youths and stated that he is constantly contending with how to deal with the problem of youth unemployment
- Ortom called on government at all levels to engage the youth with employment opportunities as he stressed that an idle hand is the devil’s workshop
The various agitations around the country, including that of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have been blamed on youth unemployment, by the governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom.
According to reports, Ortom made his position known during a chat with newsmen in Abuja, on Thursday, September 21.
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He stated: “I think that this agitation that we are talking about, if you look at the majority of the people that are visibly seen from the Biafran agitation that has now been proscribed; you discover that they are mainly youths.
“Youths are all over the place. If you hear what the Arewa coalition did, they are still youths.
"To me, I think that it is lack of employment. And it’s a very big challenge we have to contend with.
“I have known that even before I started campaigning to be governor. Even as governor, what troubles me every day is how to surmount this challenge.
“I feel that this agitation and all these problems, threats from here and there are coming as a result of not engaging these youths because the hand that is idle becomes the devil’s workshop.
“I think that we must concentrate our efforts at the local government, state and federal levels to ensure that we engage our youths.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that former Senate president, David Mark, mocked Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, for the distribution of wheel barrows to youths in the state.
Mark threw jabs at the governor at the Rivers state Government House during the commissioning of the remodelled Brick House, the former Government House in the state.
Watch this NAIJ.com TV video of a young Nigerian man calling for mass burial for all the nation's leaders
Source: Naij.com
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Friday, 22 September 2017