Naja’atu Mohammed talks tough on economic bondage of Arewa youths
By Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Frontline activist cum politician, Naja’atu Mohammed has lamented what she described as an economic bondage that kept languishing the living conditions of the youths in northern Nigeria.
Naja as she is fondly referred to by her admirers, Friday morning, in Kano , speaking on a breakfast radio programme hosted on Arewa radio cautioned that vast number of youths in the north are now a time bomb packaged by hardship.
She alleged that those elected into public offices have failed to exercise their duties towards youths in the region, stressing that are backward, when compared to those from other regions of the country.
According to her, the current generation of youths in the region are victims of deliberate denial of access to quality education, skills acquisition and enlighten, this agenda is knitted by the political elites, she said.
Adding that these youths are been starved of the basic quality of life by their leaders with the intent to continue to ensure they serve negative purposes, prior, during and post elections periods.
Naja’atu urged Arewa youths to arise to the challenge to realize their potentials and shun all forms of anti social vice planted to derail them from attaining their full potentials in life.
She alleged that efforts to arouse the consciousness of Arewa youths is been sabotage by certain vested political interest, adding that the motive behind the sabotage is to continue to incite these youths against themselves to pave way for comfortable looting of public resources by certain connected groups and persons within the corridors of power.
