We will tackle insurgency through creation of eight million jobs, says APC

To check violent insurgency in the North East, the Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), North West, Alh. Inuwa Abdulkadir, says the party will create eight million jobs within four years if voted into power in 2015.
The former Minister of Youth Development spoke at an Inter-Party Debate on Parties’ Master Plan for Rising Insecurity in Nigeria organised by Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) at the weekend in Abuja.
Decrying the poor performance of the present administration to effectively manage insecurity challenges in the country, Abdulkadir said the increasing violence and attacks in the nation is attributed to the high rate of unemployment rate among the youth.
He said: “One could say lack of jobs is one of the causes of insecurity in Nigeria. We have a quite substantial number of young people who have no jobs or means of livelihood. Literally, they have nothing doing, yet they have to survive. So anybody can use them to fabricate all sort of violence. That’s why job creation is the main crust of APC and that, you can witness in APC states. APC intends to provide the people with 2 million jobs annually when it gets into power.”
In his remarks, representative of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Catchy Onanoju, said the nation has been unable to win the battle against insurgency due to poor training of military personnel.
He said: “You can make your background checks; our boys have not been trained in the past 30 years. As I speak, if we have a real commando unit, 10 boys can go in and take out a battalion of Boko Haram. We are lucky, because Boko Haram is not well organised. I am here sharing the truth about what we have as a challenge in the country. We have to agree as a country to rebuild our army.”
Both Abdulkadir and Onanoju, however, agreed on the issue of state and community policing in order to address the lingering security crisis in the country.