Stop Making Excuses For Perpetrating Evil! NigeriaIs Not The Only Country Where Everybody Is Not Employed – Mark

Senate President, David Mark, yesterday, urged Nigerians to stop blaming the evil perpetrated by some unscrupulous elements in the country on unemployment. He also blamed leaders and politicians from the North for the growing almajiri in theregion, saying they must urgently rise up to ban the system.
Mark said this while reacting to the issue of parental negligence raised by Senator Alkali Abdulkadir Jajere, ANPP, Yobe South, during a debate on a bill, “A Bill for an Act to Repeal and Re-enact the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Act 2003”, sponsored by Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, PDP, Cross River Central.
Jajere had sought a stiff legislationcompelling parents, particularly in the North, to take adequate care of their wards, saying it was time for the almajiri system in the region to be eradicated.
He also gave a heart-rending picture of how he grew up without knowing hisparents because of the system, a horrific story of the life he went through as an almajiri child.
The Senator said it was God’s grace that he was enrolled in school, whilehe recalled that many of such children weren’t as lucky as he was, and never had the opportunity he had to be educated.
The Senate President was moved by Senator Jajere’s story, and said: “Itis amazing when we tend to make excuses for our failings. If you cannot gain employment you, go and join a terrorist group so that you can be employed.
“You join Boko Haram because you haveno employment. If you are poor, then you begin to trade and traffic in human beings so that you can be rich.
“These are all excuses. What about the people who are buying these people outside. Is it because they can’t find employment or because theyare poor? I think we should stop making excuses.
“Everything is reduced to the level of unemployment in the country. Nigeria is not the only country whereeverybody is not employed. That you are not employed does not mean you should go and do something very bizarre.
“You open up a baby factory; you begin to sedate people and remove their organs to sell. It’s just nevera good excuse for some of the things that we do.”