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Stakeholders Blame Restiveness In N’Delta On Collapsed Family Values, Unemployment
Some stakeholders in the Niger Delta have identified collapse in family values and unemployment as factors contributing to the rising level of insecurity in the region.
They also called for value reorientation to stem the rising level of insecurity in the region.
This was part of resolutions at the end of a one-day stakeholders round table on strategies to mitigate youth restiveness, criminality, and violence in Borokiri, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
It was organised by the Foundation For Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) in conjunction with Centre for Gender, Conflict And Development Studies, University of Port Harcourt.
The stakeholders also called for the creation of employment opportunities for the unemployed youth in the region while skill acquisition centres should also be created in the region to engage the youths in various skills.
Declaring the event open, Capacity Building Coordinator, Peace Building Programme (PIND), Chukwudi Njoku, said the foundation is liaising with various stakeholders to find solutions to restiveness in the region.
Njoku also cautioned against the use of force to seek redress to the problem, adding that any attempt to push the criminals away cannot succeed.
He said PIND is working with some agencies such as the Ministry of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation to find solutions to the problem.
Reading out the objectives of the forum, Madam Lauretta Ahuokpeme said the aims and objectives of the roundtable forum are to change the mindsets of community youths, build their capacities in peace building and conflicts management and to get commitment of key stakeholders in peace and security advancement in the area
Also speaking, the Commissioner, Ministry of Social Welfare And Rehabilitation, Mrs Inime Aguma, said the Ministry is doing so much in the Borokiri axis of the city in terms of giving youths meaningful lives.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Justina Atonye Jumbo, she said peace cannot thrive in an atmosphere of violence, adding that “peace is something everybody wants to have”.
Also, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs, Mrs. Uchechukwu Uriri, described the level of restiveness as frightening.
Uriri, who represented her Commissioner, Dr. Roseline Uranta, also blamed the situation on get-rich-quick syndrome and failures of families to uphold moral values.
She urged people who are well to do to share what they have with those who do not have.
Secretary of Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Barrister Chile Owuru, said security agencies need to step up their activities to check criminalities in the Borokiri axis of the city.
He expressed regrets that some youths in the city have failed to utilise various opportunities put in place by the council to improve themselves.
Some representatives of Communities in Borokiri axis of Port Harcourt, including representatives of security agencies and Non Governmental Organisations, said more need to be done to check youth restiveness in the Borokiri axis of the city.
By: John Bibor
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