Adams Oshiomhole, a former National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, has identified the cause of banditry and insecurity
in Nigeria.
Oshiomhole said the closure of factories and retrenchment of
workers in Nigeria were the major reasons for banditry and general insecurity
in the country.
He stated this at the 2nd Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC,
National Peace and Security Summit in Abuja, yesterday.
The former APC National Chairman also noted that non-payment
of the N30, 000 new minimum wage President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law was
also responsible for lack of peace in the country.
He said: ‘’Who are the bandits? I suspect that those 35,000
workers whose factories have been closed in Kaduna city, those whose livelihood
have been taken away, what are they doing?
“What will their children and grandchildren be doing now?
It’s common sense to know that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.
“I suspect that those Nigerians that we abandoned and not
providing for them, as you can call them almajiris or beggars have all grown
up.
“When you talk about unemployment, the biggest problem is
having the biggest population of unemployable.
“When they deny workers such payment, can there be peace? I
submit with the International Labour Organisation, ILO, that the condition for
national peace and security does not necessarily need much bullet but decent
jobs.
‘’But when you are at an environment where jobs are being
killed, jobs that do not exist cannot even be decent.”
Banditry, kidnapping and general insecurity is currently on
the rise across Nigeria.
While bandits are abducting and killing students in the
North, unknown gunmen are attacking security personnel and government
institutions in the Southeast.
Killer herdsmen are creating havoc in some states like
Benue, Taraba and some parts of the Southeast.
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