Don’t Plunge Nigeria To More Youthful Suicides, Security Threats, Ikubese Tells President Buhari

By Niyi Olutunde, Akure 

Following the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to assent the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) bill after had been scrutinized by National Assembly, a Presidential Aspirant of the National Conscience Party(NCP), Dr. Thomas-Wilson Ikubese has urged the President to save more souls from committing suicide by re-considering his earlier stance and grant assent to the bill in order to give glory to his administration.

KDr. Ikubese while addressing journalists in Akure maintained that the refusal of President Buhari to sign the bill into law would affect over one hundred and fifty Nigerian youths who had hoped that the Peace Corps of Nigeria would provide means of livelihood for them.

It would be recalled that the non-signing into law of the bill has made a Peace Corps personnel in Gombe, Timothy Gambo to have allegedly committed a suicide.

He said that the PCN could also serve in information gathering, a missing link in the Chibok and recent Dapchi kidnap scenarios.

He maintained that taking about 150,000 youths off the enemployment market and engaged them productively to the benefit of society was a venture that the led All Progressive Congress ruling administration should be proud to champion having promised to create jobs abinitio

Ikubese posited that Peace Corps of Nigeria serves to meet these needs perfectly after been undergoing specialised training, said “I do not see the PCN as duplicating the function of any existing security outfit, but rather meeting a unique societal need.

Mr President fears that the burden of the monthly remuneration is that which the Federal government cannot bear at this time of scare resources”.