The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta, Senator Ita Enang has called on state governors to meet with all the youths in their state as a way of addressing the security challenges confronting the country.
Senator Enang made the call while speaking on Arise Television on recently in Abuja.
He urged the governors to utilize the meeting to tell the youths about the various programmes they are doing for them adding that “we now have to apologies for them, because there were times in this country when we missed out on taking care of them and so they are angry”.
He further said “we need to apologies to them and on my little part I apologies to them for the little we did not do at certain time and please let return back to the table”.
“We, the leaders and Elders have provoked the youths of this country, we did not plan for them, no government in this country PDP or APC can excuse himself for what is happing now” he added.
According to Senator Enang, “when we were busy educating our children in the best of schools, what did we do for them, when we were busy thinking of the welfare of our children”.
“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 would constitute danger to our children and our children would not have peace and that is what we are witnessing today”, he added.
He also pointed out that the Local government is not free and could not do anything in education as it ought to do because the money of the Local Government is not being directly control by them.
Senator Enang further lamented “the state government were complacent noting that governors from the beginning were happy to be governors and controlling money while paying lips services to education and welfare of children”.
He lamented that at the level of the states, insecurity would have been curb but now we are bearing the brunt of bad governance arising from the failure of the state government to do the needful at ward, Local government and the State level.
“So we are collectively reaping the fruit of bad governance at the state level while President Buhari is now saddled with the responsibility to finding solution to the problem. By God grace he is providing the solution.
Senator Enang finally called on the state government to take responsibility and stop pushing everything to the federal government as these problem is happing at the level of local and the states. Adding that it is a burden in which both state and federal government must shoulder.
