MINNA – As part of strategies to end the increasing new wave of technologically based crime common among youths, a Clergy man, Pastor Petrock Sadiq of the House on the Rock church, Minna Niger state has made a case for the establishment of a strong cyber system hub where such skills can be put into positive use.
The Clergy man said he is also worried about the flambouyant lifestyle of those in leadership positions and their families who indulge in lavishing hard earned tax-payers money on long list of delegates to global conferences and foreign missions while majority of Nigerians today wallow in abject poverty, hunger and deprivations.
Pastor Sadiq in an interview argued that though there is general rise in different forms and magnitude of crime, what is certain is that creating jobs will keep Nigerian youths busy and bring about drastic reduction in all forms of crime and criminalities.
“It is worrisome that Nigeria is always the highest when it comes to list of delegates to foreign trips or missions abroad”, adding that monies spent on such foreign trips can be used to create business opportunities for where they can develop their skills.
Establishing such hubs will change the mindsets of science and technologically inclined youths from evil into positive use instead of using God give talent for advanced fee fraud popularly referred to as ‘yahoo- yahoo’ thereby tarnishing the image of Nigeria abroad.
Nigerian youths are very intelligent, all that they require is to be given the opportunity and enabling environment to put their skills and talents into positive use, adding that most youths indulging in crime is not doing so because they wanted to be criminals but because they come face-to-face with so many denials and deprivations.
He recalled a globally celebrated cyber criminal of Nigerian origin defrauded some foreigners, adding that, “Hushpuppy was able to defraud his victims using names of airports and universities that never existed anywhere in the world but he sold the dummy to the Americans. Such intelligent acumen would have been put into positive use if our leaders really have love for the country and her citizenry”.
Pastor Sadiq accused leaders of causing more harm to the national economy by their penchant for foreign made goods said. “Many of them and their families rarely buy or use made in Nigeria products and all these promote capital freight and threaten indigenous industries”.
The Clergy man said he is not a politician and so cannot be accused of aligning with opposition voices to achieve whatsoever gain said he is speaking as a citizen who is also feeling the pinch of hunger and deprivation the Nigerian masses have been subjected to by politicians who make empty promises they hardly fulfil.
He however encouraged the youths to resist the temptations of towing the path of crime and get-rich-quick syndrome, adding that, “Nigerians need patriotic leaders who will feel the heartbeat of the masses. Leaders that are ready to make sacrifices and feel the heart beat of the down-trodden masses”.
