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While Speaking yesterday at the North East zone of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) rally held at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, President Goodluck Jonathan maintained that insurgency and crimes such as kidnapping and armed robbery were gaining ground because governors of the affected states were failing in their responsibilities.
He said the security challenges in the North-east was the handiwork of illiterate youths who lost hope due to bad leadership of their state governors who failed to send them to school.
He said the security challenges in the North-east was the handiwork of illiterate youths who lost hope due to bad leadership of their state governors who failed to send them to school.
“State governors that are saying it is bad leadership should be ashamed. I was a deputy governor and governor where I spent eight years at the state. The first commercial kidnapping took place in Bayelsa. Seventy per cent of the state are swamps; a governor will come and spread issue that it is because of bad leadership. Bad leadership from who? We had security challenges in Bayelsa when I was deputy governor and governor and we handled them. It is not the duty of Federal Government to send children to primary and secondary schools but it is the constitutional right of the Federal Government to make sure children attend tertiary institutions, which we have done.
“If we have security challenges, whether you call them Boko Haram or kidnappers or whatever, these are people who couldn’t go to primary school, who couldn’t go to secondary schools. Miscreants now recruit and use them. If you see them, they wear rags, they don’t wear normal clothes. All they put on their body is not worth N10 but they carry assault rifle with bullets that are more than N250, 000. Somebody gave them food and asked them to kill. We ask how we build this army of unemployed or employable youths. The Federal Government does not control primary education. The Federal Government does not control secondary education. And a governor has been on seat for almost eight years.
“Governors must make sure our children go to schools. Somebody stays eight years in leadership and he opens his mouth and says bad leadership. Is it the Federal Government that will make your children go to primary schools? State governors that do not send their children to schools and they carry arms should be ashamed to say bad leadership. We are into this madness because people refuse to do their work and people carry arms and engage in insurgency.
“Governors must make sure our children go to schools. Somebody stays eight years in leadership and he opens his mouth and says bad leadership. Is it the Federal Government that will make your children go to primary schools? State governors that do not send their children to schools and they carry arms should be ashamed to say bad leadership. We are into this madness because people refuse to do their work and people carry arms and engage in insurgency.
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