From Our Correspondent in Abuja
A member of the Green Chamber of the National Assembly (NASS), Rep. Ibrahim Almustapha-Rabah (APC-Sokoto) says federal lawmakers are fully committed to securing Nigeria.
Almustapha-Rabah, who represents Rabah/Wurno Federal Constituency, gave the assurance in a chat with newsmen, on Monday, in Abuja.
“All of us at the National Assembly are working hard, either individually or collectively, to better secure Sokoto State and Nigeria generally.
“We hope these modest efforts and approaches will yield a positive result in the near future.
“We are, therefore, on it proactively and we are alive to our responsibilities as ever,” he said.
According to him, insecurity, being perpetrated by a few criminally-minded citizens, has eaten deep into the fabric of the country.
He noted that insecurity and its associated challenges had overstretched various communities.
“These communities were hitherto blossoming economic hubs populated by active, happy and determined people.
“The landscapes were very green, richly endowed and highly fertile, ready for anything to grow for prosperity and wealth creation.
“Our blessed livestock population provides all we need to support, not only our basic needs but even self–help community projects,” the lawmaker said.
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He regretted that those beautiful sceneries had faded over the years. The simple reason is that the fertile lands provide a safe haven for miscreants.
According to him, the miscreants freely move with sophisticated weapons, killing, maiming, seizing livestock and kidnapping for ransom.
The lawmaker lamented the insecurity situation was an act similar to a war of attrition, economic sabotage and annihilation.
“Unfortunately, our collective action or inaction nurtured those criminal elements.
“This resulted from our failure to address identified gaps, particularly in education and employment generation.
“We are today, managing the street boys, the out-of-school children and the almajiris of the last 20 years. They now constitute a grown-up unemployed population.
“Some of them frustrated and hopeless went into drugs and crime, the nexus being failure to address some basic issues of needs and development in the past.”
To reverse the trend, he asserted that education, infrastructure and agriculture remain the major drivers of development. “We must take these seriously for the nation to succeed”.
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