The Federal House of Representatives is working hard towards establishing a Youth Development Commission that would provide solutions to the myriads of challenges confronting Nigerian youths, House Committee on Youth Development, Chairman, Hon. Segun Adekola has said.
Hon. Adekola dropped the hint in Gombe while reacting to the rising restiveness and related issues among Nigerian youths, particularly the recent ultimatum for the Igbo people to vacate the North as issued by some northern youths.
He said the Bill when it finally scales through would provide lasting solution to the problems of youth restiveness.
He said the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly had already sponsored a bill seeking the establishment of the Youth Development Commission, which is already set for the second reading on the floor of the House.
“The bill will tackle youth restiveness in terms of provisions of gainful employment for the youth, grant them soft loans, among other palliatives,” he said.
The Lawmaker who acknowledged that a hungry man is an angry man, posited that, “youths’ minds will be occupied by the devil when they are not gainfully employed.
“The bill will cure a lot of menace. It will tackle the issues of Boko Haram, militancy, prostitution and kidnapping presently ravaging our land,” he said
He was in Gombe on oversight function to ascertain the level of concern about the Corps members deployed to them and to equally inspect facilities at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camp which its Chairman described as inhabitable.
Gombe state Deputy Governor, Dr. Charles Iliya said it became necessary to relocate the camp to its present location at Akko village because Corps members were not considered safe at the permanent orientation camp then.
He said a directive from the Federal Government that the camp was to be used for the rehabilitation of voluntarily surrendered insurgent Boko Haram members further stalled preparations to move the NYSC members back to their permanent camp.
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