President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday indicted some unnamed state
governors in the north-eastern part of the country over the spate of insecurity
in the zone that has left hundreds of people dead.
He said the unnamed governors who turn around to attribute the violence
to bad leadership failed in their responsibility of providing basic primary and
secondary education for the children.
He said the uneducated children who form an army of unemployed and
unemployable youths are now tools in the hands of miscreants who feed and arm
them to kill innocent citizens.
Jonathan spoke at the Peoples Democratic Party’s North East Unity Rally
held in Bauchi, Bauchi State.
He said while the Federal Government was doing its part by providing
tertiary education to teeming Nigerian youths, state governments must also play
their roles and stop pointing accusing fingers at him.
He said he played his role well to end insecurity in Bayelsa State when
he was the deputy governor and the state governor, hence he expected state
governors to play their roles too.
He added that north-eastern states had lost more people than any other
part of the country in the violence orchestrated by the fundamental Islamic
sect, Boko Haram because people refused to do the right thing.
Meanwhile, Jonathan on Saturday also said the problems of youth
restiveness and insecurity within the African continent might have been
caused by “external forces” working against the progress of the region.
Jonathan was not specific on what he meant by “external forces” but
stated however, that the growth which the continent had recorded within the
last few years might be a major reason for people who are envious of the region
to cause instability.
He stated these in Abuja at the opening session of the Seventh joint
annual meetings of the Economic Commission of Africa conference of African
ministers of finance, planning and economic development and the African Union
conference of ministers of economy and finance.
In a related development, the Katsina State Government said it had
concluded arrangements to convene a special security meeting with neighbouring
Zamfara on ways to fight crime and attacks on villages.
Gov. Ibrahim Shema said this at a meeting with his Zamfara counterpart,
Gov. Abdulaziz Yari, at the Government House in Gusau.
He expressed concerns over increasing criminal activities, where large
number of heavily armed hoodlums invaded villages, maimed and killed several
community members.
CKN News, your caption to this write up is wrong. What is bombing about GEJ's view as expressed here? Everybody knows that the Northern governors (who recently attended a meeting in US) have failed woefully in their primary duties of gorvernance. They should call and talk to themselves as brothers and do the needful rather than pointing accuse fingers in all directions aimlessly and accusing FG for their inefficiency.
ReplyDeleteJonather u behind d insecurity in north ad we knw,
ReplyDeletePresido! Who get d militant? Who own d kidnapers?is it bcus dey didn't go to skul,what hapen to police pention missin money? What hapen to d missin 20 billion dollar?
ReplyDelete@ anonymous 7:44 am, how much will be ur share if those money were not missing? Was it Jonathan that created Sharia in about 9 northern state? What re the northern governors doing with their security vote? Just in 3yrs Jonathan has created 10 new university and 12 Al-majari (basic education) in the north while the northern governors re busy creating sharia (boko haram).
DeleteThat's a good one my presido you are just too much to join issues with people whose only means of livelyhood is to do everything possible to rule whether or not they have what its takes to do so. They are tryn to force BH on you when they are the owners and chief financiers. When Bohari threaten to make the country ungovernable after loosing the last election, because he is their brother none of them said anything. These are people they used and armed as thugs but later abandoned after helping them to achieve their selfish aim. They may be tired of stealling money under the guise of security votes. What they failed to tell Nigerians and US Govt is when the word Boko Haram became an izon (ijaw) language.
ReplyDeleteJonathan has salient lay shown that he is incapable of ruling this country. He delibrately rejected the report that was put together to end the insurgence because he is aware that he is not politically popular in the north east. God will judge him certainly.
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