Nigeria: Poor economic management is responsible for the threat to national peace says CS-CRIN
By Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Civil Society Organization for Conflict resolution in Nigeria, CS-CRIN has decried what it described as the economic hardship yoke, that it is responsible for the continuous threat to peace in Nigeria.
The National Coordinator, CS-CRIN, Adeniyi Aremu speaking at a one day session held at Quarters House hotel, Kano harped that in a circumstance where the populace are not happy with the economy leads to large scale violence.
Aremu in his welcome remarks at the programme with the title “
Gender Business Meeting on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for Peace Building in Nigeria SCEPAC- project” said poverty incite the citizenry to resort to violence.
According to him, the Nigerian economic space is not conducive leading to issues such as high cost of energy products that culminates to high prices of essential commodities.
He lamented that the harsh economic situation has led to collapse of multitude of women owned busineses, he said the women folk currently lack the financial capacity to venture into new business nor sustain old establishes ones.
Aremu further hinted that the flabby economic situation in Nigeria has invoked the resort to felling of tress, which gave birth to deforestation, which currently is responsible for avoidable disasters been recorded in parts of the country.
He urged all stakeholders to arise to the challenge by confronting the issues bordering on social inclusion and gender equality with the aim to prevent violence, restore and sustainable peace enhancement practices across board in Nigeria.
