The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has attributed youth restiveness as one of the major challenges noting that the present administration is taking steps address it by engaging the youths.
According to her, looting and destruction of government facilities in the territory in wake of the hijack of the #EndSARS protest is as a result of it.
Aliyu,who stated this in Abuja during a virtual stakeholders’ meeting, on Thursday called on stakeholders to embark on sensitisation of residents.
She also disclosed that the FCT Administration had set-up a data desk to collate data of youths across the six area councils in the territory in order to identify their needs and engage them.
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Aliyu pointed out that the Data Desks would be designed to serve individual area councils, adding that decisions of the administration would input from all stakeholders.
The minister used the occasion to commend the Kuje Area Council youths for their efforts in repelling hoodlums that attempted to disrupt the peace in their community.
Aliyu stated that her office was working on training the indigenous women and youths of the FCT on how they could handle the school feeding programme as well as other vocational training.
In their various contributions, stakeholders commended the minister for recognising the role of critical stakeholders in governance.
They pledged to assist the administration to achieve peaceful co-existence in the territory.
