The media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Lere Olayinka, has expressed concern about insecurity in the North, attributing it to abandoned children.

Olayinka, in a post via his 𝕏 handle on Tuesday, shared photos of abandoned Northern children in the streets begging for food and money.

According to Olayinka, many terrorists and bandits attacking the citizens were once innocent children roaming the streets, hungry, uneducated, and forgotten.

Wike’s aide emphasised that there is no reason a man who cannot properly take care of one wife and two children should marry three wives and produce fifteen or seventeen children.

The post read, “This is one problem the north must begin to solve now.

“There is no reason a man who cannot properly take care of one wife and two children should marry three wives and produce fifteen or seventeen children.

“Many of today’s terrorists and bandits were once innocent children roaming the streets, hungry, uneducated, and forgotten.

“Abandoned children, like these ones will certainly grow up angry, desperate and dangerous.

“Each time I see them on major roads in Abuja carrying plastic bowl, my questions were always “how did they get here? Who are their parents? What will these unaccounted children become in future?”

“I am sure some people will still come here to blame government. But what can the government do in the case of a gate-man earning say N60k per month, but has four wives and 17 children?”