Emir of Kano, Mohammadu Sanusi (II) on Monday said that Nigeria’s huge population is currently a liability to the country.
Speaking during a panel discussion during the ongoing 25th National Economic Summit in Abuja on Monday, Sanusi said the potentials of the country’s huge population had yet to be tapped as the right policies to harness the future of the young people are still lacking.
He attributed the rate of kidnapping, armed robbery, insurgency, farmers-herders crisis to the level of population growth.
“People talk that our population is an asset but we are yet to get there.
“Nigeria’s population is currently a liability because most of the root cause of problems such as kidnapping, armed robbery, Boko Haram, drug addiction are all tied to the population that we have and the question is how do you turn that into a productive one.
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