APC Chieftain Calls For More Job Opportunities For Edo Youths To Arrest Cult Killings
……… Says government can change the narratives, with good governance
By Elvis Omoregie
Apparently not the best of time and period for an average youth of Edo State due to the rising cult killings that have continued to thrive and harvest the souls of Edo youth.
In an effort to nib cultism in the bud, Edo State Chieftain and leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, Comrade Osarobo Idahosa, has called on Edo State government to change the narratives by creating more job openings to engage the teeming youths in the State to arrest the ongoing cult Killings.
He made the call yesterday in Abuja the federal capital territory while speaking with journalists on the continuous unabated cult Killings in the state.
Comrade Idahosa, stated that it’s very unfortunate that the youths are killing themselves in the state adding that they are supposed to be the leaders of tomorrow, governor’s, Honourable ministers, kings, industrialists and many more are engaging in cultism to hurt themselves all because of government failure to provide jobs and more opportunities in the state.
According to him, alot of youths have died all because there’s no job or meaningful things to engage on thereby making more of them to feel lazy and unuseful to themselves and the society at large but the government has a serious pivotal role to play
The APC stalwart who served as Edo state co-ordinator Tinibu/Shettima Independent Grassroots Campaign Council (ICC), also the President and Founder Grassroots Youths initiatives (GYI), frown seriously at the recent cult war in the state declared against themselves.
“When a government create jobs for the youths, they have solved a lot of problems in the state and any good government knows that and will always focus more on how to engage the youths and create enably environment for them to strive, but when a government fails to engage the youths, that is what we see today.
“Every youths in the state needs to be engaged and when they are engaged, crime will be reduced..
“When they don’t have meaningful engagements, they can go into a lot of things, creating problems here and there but when they’re well engaged, you can see that a lot of crime will be reduced”, Osarobo said.
Recently, Edo state has been engulfed with cult killings. Statistics showed that no fewer than 25 persons have been reportedly killed in suspected cult-related shootings in Benin City and Auchi in Edo State in the last one month.
The latest of the killings were said to be four victims reportedly shot dead yesterday at Upper Mission, Okhun and Oluku areas of Benin.
