{"id":957,"date":"2024-11-25T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=957"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:31:12","slug":"insecurity-sen-nwoko-tasks-nass-on-convocation-of-a-national-dialogue-for-youths-terrorist-leaders-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/insecurity-sen-nwoko-tasks-nass-on-convocation-of-a-national-dialogue-for-youths-terrorist-leaders-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity: Sen Nwoko Tasks NASS on convocation of a National Dialogue\u00a0 for\u00a0 Youths, terrorist leaders, others"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Worried by the increasing wave of insecurity in various parts of the country, a member of the Senate, Senator Ned Nwoko has called for a national dialogue involving leaders of terrorist, youth and other interest groups organised by the National Assembly.<\/div>\n
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Senator Nwoko\u00a0 who represents Delta North stated this while fielding questions from\u00a0 journalists at the National Assembly at the weekend on a motion on the \u201cneed to deploy adequate security personnel to trouble spots in local government areas in Borno State\u201d.<\/div>\n
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He said the popular\u00a0 thinking that empowering our security is the solution to insecurity is not true.<\/div>\n
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He canvassed for the convocation of national dialogue spare headed by the National Assembly that will afford all Nigerians including the youth, men, women, representatives of terrorist groups and ordinary Nigerians the opportunity to air their views.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe need to have a nation where dialogue is encouraged\u201d, adding that \u201cattack helicopter alone won\u2019t solve the problem\u201d.<\/div>\n
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He said Nigeria needs to know why young Nigerians would like to carry guns to kill people or be killed.<\/div>\n
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Nwoko was of the view that something must be fundamentally wrong, which makes banditry and other crimes attractive to the youth.<\/div>\n
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According to him \u201cat the bottom of this is the economy. If the economy were to be good, I\u2019m sure many of these young ones won\u2019t want to carry guns to be killed or to kill.<\/div>\n
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\u201cLike I said on the floor of the Senate, we have the burial of Ifeanyi Uba coming up tomorrow and next tomorrow in the South East and yet many of our members are not happy to go because of threats of violence.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhy do we have a part of the country that has become a no go area because people are scared? They are scared because they youth there are fighting because they feel neglected, they feel marginalized.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, I\u2019m proposing that there should be a national conference that will involve the youths, all stakeholders, whether they are politicians, Churches, Mosques, media, everybody. This national conference should be convened by the National Assembly. At least you will hear from every person, every group, and you will find a permanent solution. That is the way forward.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI gave the example of the Irish\u00a0 Republican Army (IRA) in England many years ago. They were fighting because they were being occupied by the British government.<\/div>\n
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” They didn\u2019t\u00a0 want it. They were killing the British Army and the British Army retaliated by killing them. It was when they agreed to sit down and talk that the whole thing stopped. We must learn from them\u201d, he concluded.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worried by the increasing wave of insecurity in various parts of the country, a member of the Senate, Senator Ned Nwoko has called for a national dialogue involving leaders of terrorist, youth and other interest groups organised by the National Assembly. Senator Nwoko\u00a0 who represents Delta North stated this while fielding questions from\u00a0 journalists at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[251,570,568,36,569,230],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-insecurity","tag-interested-groups","tag-national-dialogue","tag-senate","tag-terrorists-leaders","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}