By Anolu Vincent – Owerri
Anglican Bishop of Orlu Diocese, Imo State, Rt. Rev. Bennett C.I Okoro has expressed concern over the increasing rate of youth unemployment in the country, lamenting that instead of establishing industries to absorb university graduates, the government is busy establishing more non technological Universities whose products have no hope of securing jobs.
He said the high youth unemployment rate had given rise to ceaseless violent armed robberies and kidnapping of innocent citizens. Speaking at the1st Synod of the 11th synod of the diocese held at the St. Philips church Amike parish held under the theme ‘Godly Leadership Panacea for National Transformation’ (Isaiah 9: 16-19), the bishop said that life had become unbearable for the people, “there is object poverty which has led many youths to try the impossible by seeking greener pastures through the desert and using rickety boats to cross the Mediterranean sea with thousands of them losing their lives in the process.
“The Fulani herdsmen who are armed to the teeth move about destroying farm lands with their cattle and hacking the owners of these areas to death after raping their wives and daughter”.
Bishop Okorowho condemned the skirmishes that trailed the last general elections in the country commended former President Goodluck Jonathan for conceding defeat to president Muhammadu Buhari, noting that by that patriotic act, the Former president doused what would have been a very violent response from his supporters.
“If he had acted otherwise, many people would have been telling a different story and perhaps would have run to their villages to avert the violence that may have been unleashed on the polity”, he noted. Bishop Okoro similarly decried the continued marginalization of the South East since the cessation of hostilities in 1970 and advised the federal government to ensure the implementation of the decision of the national conference on the creation of an additional state in the zone to wipe out tears from the eyes of the South Easterners.
The prelate congratulated Governor Rochas Okorocha and his deputy on their victory at the polls and pleaded with the governor to do something urgently about unemployment, bad roads, erosion, poor electricity and water supply and absence of industries in the state.
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