The Arewa Triumphant Youth Foundation has urged members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra to lay down their arms and focus on the betterment on Nigeria.
ATYF’s National President, Ibrahim Yusuf said this during a press conference on Friday to announce activities lined up for a proposed Arewa Youth Leadership Summit scheduled for this month in Kaduna.
Yusuf said “We are brothers. We should be able to live together as one big family. Nothing should separate us. MASSOB should lay down their arms, and allow us to stay together for the betterment of this great country.
“There is no doubt that 99 per cent of these people that are into these various crises are young persons, and this is because they are jobless, and to stop them from being violent, government at all levels must provide jobs and the enabling environment for the youth.
“President Buhari should fulfil his promise paying N5,000 to unemployed persons in the country, even though I don’t support the idea of sharing money because it may cause crisis, and make people lazy.
“I will rather support government giving the people nets to catch fish than giving them fish to eat, and rebuild the country of one nation, one vision and one goal.
“Government should realise that as one Nigeria, until it brings everybody together, the country will continue to have crisis.”