Tackle unemployment, poverty to fight insecurity, workers urge governments

To save Nigeria from a looming catastrophe, the government at all levels have been urged to take urgent steps to address economic challenges that have been proven to be root causes of insecurity in the country. The economic challenges that need urgent solutions include unemployment, especially youth unemployment, extreme poverty and deteriorating standard of living.
   
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), stated this during its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting recently, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Unfortunately, like a festering wound, they argued that the country is still not out of the woods in terms of insecurity of lives and property, exemplified by armed robbery, kidnapping, ritual killing, hooliganism, terrorism, child trafficking, raping, child labour, baby factory prostitution and other social vices.
 
All these negative social indicators, the Association noted, are daily assuming a frightening dimension with attendant detrimental consequences for Nigeria.National President of the ASCSN, Bobboi Kaigama, in his address at the meeting also implored the three tiers of government to address the problems of hopelessness and deprivation in the land by initiating projects that will give employment to youths.He listed the establishment of farm settlements, construction of roads, housing estates and skills acquisition centres among others as projects that have the capacity to boost economic activities that will in turn create jobs on sustainable basis.He said: “It should be noted that employment creation is a function of economic activities created. Jobs are not created in the air or through empty statements.