The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, had on Monday, warned that Nigeria as a country, will not escape another citizens’ restiveness in the mode of #EndSARS protest unless it effectively addresses the issue of youth unemployment and make practical steps in its national budget to meaningfully engage the youths.
He made this known, when he formally declared open the 2021 budget defence for the Ministry of Agriculture before the Senator Abdullahi Adamu, All Progressives Congress, APC, Nasarawa West led Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
He said some youths genuinely expressed their anger in the recent #EndSARS protest and successfully gained government’s attention.
Recounting the events of the #EndSARS protest, the Senate president warned that a good number of the youths who may not have had the opportunity to vent their anger are in the rural areas and there is therefore,the urgent need to meet them in their needs.
Lawan advised there was need to be more practical with budgetary allocations for the Ministry of Agriculture so as to create jobs for many of the youths; adding, “Let’s meet them where they are and many of them are in the rural areas. Let’s give them what we can and keep them in the rural areas and make their lives productive. On our part, we are going to be accountable. We escaped this one (#EndSARS Protest); the other one is inescapable”.
