Northern youth under the aegis of the Arewa Triumphant Youth Foundation, have begged the indigenous People of Biafra and members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra to lay down their arms and embrace dialogue for peace to reign in the land.
They said they would not be happy to see the South- Eastern part of the country break away from Nigeria.
ATYF’s National President, Ibrahim Yusuf, spoke at a press conference on Friday to herald activities lined up for a proposed Arewa Youth Leadership Summit scheduled for this month in Kaduna.
Yusuf said it was regrettable that major actors in Biafra violence, Boko Haram insurgency, kidnapping and Fulani herdsmen crisis across the country were youth of present generation.
According to him, there is no point for our eastern brothers and sisters to be agitating to pull out of Nigeria. regardless of ethnic and religious inclination.
“We are brothers. We should be able to live together as one big family. Nothing should separate us. MASSOB should lay down their arms, and allow us to stay together for the betterment of this great country.
“There is no doubt that 99 per cent of these people that are into these various crises are young persons, and this is because they are jobless, and to stop them from being violent, government at all levels must provide jobs and the enabling environment for the youth.
“President Buhari should fulfill his promise paying N5,000 to unemployed persons in the country, even though I don’t support the idea of sharing money because it may cause crisis, and make people lazy.
“I will rather support government giving the people nets to catch fish than giving them fish to eat, and rebuild the country of one nation, one vision and one goal.
“Government should realise that as one Nigeria, until it brings everybody together, the country will continue to have crisis.”
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