‘Lack of mentorship, bane of development of Northern youths’

It has been regretted that the lack of effective and efficient mentorship has contributed to the various social vices that have bred criminality among Northern Youths.

The lamentation was made by the Convener of National Youths Inclusive In Governance Organization (NYIGO), Hon. Yusuf Sheriff Banki while addressing a Press conference at the end of North-East one day round table strategic meeting held at the multipurpose hall of Pali Suites, Bauchi on Saturday evening.

He also said decades of civil rule in Nigeria have produced a disturbing profile in various sectors of the society, including citizens’ expectations on the mode of the governance that raised, in the first instance, their hope that all will be all right at the end of military rule.

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It was also regretted that the past years have created a generalized crisis of rising expectations particularly as democratic institutions continued to exhibit weaknesses in meeting the democratic aspirations of the people.

Banki stressed that the return to democracy in Nigeria after almost three decades of military authoritarian rule, has produced two related euphoria in the minds of Nigerians.

The first according to him is that there was the joy of witnessing the end of nauseating authoritarian tendencies and misrule, which by then had taken a serious toll on the country’s ability to nurture and develop democratic institutions.

He added that the second euphoria was predicted on the expectations that the new democratic government would turn around the country’s ominous past leadership trajectories and engender peace, unity, good governance and development.