According to the statistics, around 30% of
school-age children in the North-East region
are out of school as a result of the security
situation in that part of the country. The former Commandant, Infantry Corps
Centre, Jaji, Major-General Mohammed Isa (rtd)
, who was controversially retired from the
Army after the last year’s bombings at the
Army formation in Jaji, stated the insecurity in
that part of the country had discouraged investors from investing in the country. Speaking yesterday in Kaduna on the issue, he
also claimed that no investors would invest in
a place where there is insecurity of lives and
property. Another speaker, NLC Vice President Comrade
Issa Aremu, decried what he described as lack
of ideological base for the nation’s political
parties, noting that the Second Republic
political parties were more focused because of
their tangible programmes for the development of the country. In his paper entitled ‘Nigeria’s Economy in the
21st Century: A Determinant for 2015
Elections,’ Aremu also lamented that the
current disagreement within the parties was
not based on issues that could lead to the
development of the country. As he put it, “the disagreement is not about
bad roads, electricity, closed factories or
massive unemployment.”
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