Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has said that many able-bodied Nigerians are not willing to delay gratification but seek quick success.
Fayemi said this on Friday in an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme.
“We have a lot of young able-bodied Nigerians that are idle and don’t see delayed gratification as the solution to whatever is happening to them,” he said.
“They want immediate, quick benefits and they see an example of people who have ‘made it’. This also creates the perception that it is ok to make it, either legal or illegal.”
Fayemi also said that crime must be dealt with at the local level to discourage others who might be considering engaging themselves in criminal activities.
“We have to deal with it at the local level. Attorney Generals at the state level must find a way to bring together the commissioner of police; the prison controller and the civil society to ensure that access to justice is accelerated.
“When you resort to all manners of subterfuge to ensure that those who have committed crime are not brought to book, then you are sending a signal to the generality of people who have the tendency to do it, that they can do it and nothing will happen.
“That is that poverty is violence. I believe that is why this government has tried as much as possible to address poverty from the bottom up,” he said.
