President Muhammadu Buhari Federal Government to recruit 50 million youths into the Nigerian Army,
He argued that this will help in wiping out completely, the insurgents and other criminal elements terrorising the country.
Tinubu stated that the insurgents and bandits are taking advantage of the high unemployment in the country, and are recruiting the youths to indulge in their criminal activities, emphasising that Nigeria is under-policed.
His words: “We are under-policed, and we are competing with armed robbers and bandits to recruit from the youths who are unemployed, 33 percent unemployed?
“Recruit 50 million youths into the army, what they will eat, cassava, corn, yam, will grow here.
“Do not talk about illiteracy, anybody who can hold a gun, who can handle a gun, who can cock and shoot, is technically competent to repair a tractor in the farm.”
