The Labour Party‘s, LP, presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has mapped out strategies to tackle the issue of insecurity ravaging the country.
According to him, insecurity will be history if he is elected to be Nigeria’s next president in the forthcoming general elections in 2023.
reports that the former Anambra state governor told the Arewa Joint Committee, at yesterday’s interactive session in Kaduna that if elected, insecurity would become history under his watch, because jobs would be created for youths in Nigeria, as they are those used as tools in perpetrating all manners of social vices in the country.
He noted that the insecurity ravaging the country through banditry, insurgency, and kidnapping, among others, will go down when youths have lucrative jobs to engage their time.
The LP presidential hopeful continued that all security agencies would be properly equipped to face all sorts of insecurity in the country.
He also pledged to tackle poverty, saying that when people are pulled out of poverty, the rate of crime and insecurity will certainly reduce.
He added that “we want to bring a transformative government. The greatest asset of Nigeria is in the North. The greatest asset of Nigeria is the vast uncultivated land in the North. But this land has been taken over by bandits. We are going to unlock Nigeria.”
Obi bemoaned that it was rather unfortunate how the nation has slipped into terrains that qualify her as a failed state, noting that any country that can no longer control its economy and security is classified as a failed state.
He then maintained that “our past is gone. We are going to face the future. Fighting corruption is easy when one is not stealing. Our money is being stolen; subsidy is organised crime.
