The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Ita Enang, says Nigerian leaders have provoked the youths of the country to anger.
He said that the leaders have been busy giving their own children the best education and other privileges life have to offer at the detriment of the children of the masses.
According to Enang, the leaders’ failure to plan for the teeming youths will pose a grave danger to their own children.
The presidential aide stated this Wednesday in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported.
He blamed the rising insecurity in the country on the state governors’ failure to let the youth have knowledge of the various programmes they are executing for their benefits.
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The presidential aide further said that the states governments were complacent and paying lip service to education and welfare of their citizens.
Enang stated that the youths must be engaged to address the security challenges confronting the country.
“We the leaders and elders have provoked the youth of this country, we do not plan for them, and no government in this country can excuse itself from what is happing now.
“When we were busy educating our children in the best of schools, and when we were busy thinking of the welfare of our children, what did we do for them?
“The best love we can give to our children is to train the children of other people, who will live with our children otherwise, they will constitute danger to our children.
“And, our children will not have peace,” he said.
Enang, therefore, called on the state governments to take responsibility and stop pushing everything to the Federal Government as the security challenges were more at the local and the states levels.
He added that: “it is a burden in which both states and Federal Government must shoulder”.