Northern Youths Exodus To South ‘Desperate Move For Survival’, Says Delta State Govt

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  • Our Youths Are Either Too Lazy Or Feel Too Big To Do Menial Jobs 
  • Hausa Boys Are Ever Ready To Do Menial Jobs And Earn A Living

The daily movement of Northern youths en masse in whatsoever disguise to the Southern part of Nigeria has been described by Delta State government as a desperate survival move and not for any other agenda.

Speaking with journalists in Warri, the commercial hub of Delta, the state commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu noted that the mass movement of the teeming northern youths may not necessarily be to cause havoc in the South as being speculated, but in search of greener pastures.

In his words: “there’s no truth in claim that the northern youths moving massively to the South are coming in anticipation of possible attack in this part of the country. The truth is that the movement is a desperate move for survival.

“These people in the North also have relations and friends who are already living in the South and they are getting feelers of how they are working and making ends meet in the South, especially with menial jobs that they being hired to work on daily basis.

“What you see happening now is that while those in the South sees travelling abroad as their greener pastures these people also are beginning to see the South East, South-South and South-West as their abroad where they can come to seek greener pastures.

“You can also see from the reports we are getting that there were no guns recovered from them during the time the trucks conveying them were intercepted and that goes to show that they are harmless in search of how to earn their daily bread”.

The commissioner further revealed that “we can’t wish away the fact that many of our youths in this part of the country are either too lazy or feeling too big to do certain menial jobs but these Hausa boys are ever ready and willing to carryout these jobs and earn a living from it.

“You know the value of earning N2,000 per day in the South from doing all sorts of menial jobs but an Hausa guy will be proud to earn such and save to send more to his people at the end of the month”, he said.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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