Guns can’t solve insecurity, address injustice, poverty – Okorocha tells FG

Rochas Okorocha, Imo West Senator has stated injustice and poverty are accountable for insecurity in Nigeria.

Okorocha stated if the federal government failed to deal with poverty and injustice in Nigeria, no quantity of ammunition can win a conflict in opposition to insecurity.

The previous governor of Imo State spoke on the 2021 NBA -Spidel annual convention tagged: “The Function of Public Curiosity in Governance in Nigeria,” yesterday.

He additionally assured of Nigeria’s unity regardless of agitation for secession.

Okorocha stated: “Allow us to not exit of right here with the assumption that Nigeria is completed. Nigeria is a good nation and it could possibly’t end. New Nigeria will quickly come.

“There’s injustice and poverty in Nigeria. There’s a chilly relationship between poverty and insecurity. So long as these two evils of mankind haven’t been addressed, you would possibly import all of the tools on this world to combat insurgency and banditry, it gained’t yield any end result.

“Our drawback is injustice and poverty. I heard Governors Bala Muhammad and Rotimi Akeredolu talking on ranching. I see it as injustice when somewhat boy travels about 1000 and 2000 kilometers as a herder on foot. For me, the injustice completed to the boy is greater than all this dialogue put collectively.”

Currently, Nigeria has been confronted with heightened insecurity, with banditry, kidnapping and terrorism on the rise.