There is a greater tendency for people to resort to crime when they are economically or financially insecure.
A man who is not sure of what to eat the next morning, will likely become unsettled; and where the situation persists, could be tempted to do crime.
This is why the persisting hardship in the country calls for serious concern. The reality at the moment is that the masses of Nigerians are struggling to eke out a living.
An estimated population of over 200 million people cannot all be expected to be reasonable at the same time as to endure the lingering hard time; or put differently, to try to adapt to the prevailing excruciating economic hardship in Nigeria currently.
While it is trite that other factors such as poor upbringing, family background and peer group influence can lead youths to crime, and exacerbate insecurity, poverty occasioned by persisting economic hardship, unemployment and suffering can compel people especially youths into committing crime.
Rising prices of goods and services have hit the average Nigerian below the belt.
Again, mass unemployment can predispose unskilled, unemployed youths to being recruited as bandits, insurgents, armed robbers, cultists, ritualists among others.
This fact perhaps explains why few years ago, Emir Sanusi warned of the dangers inherent in the Almajiri phenomenon in the Northern Nigeria.
Nigeria Newspoint urges the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Bola Tinubu as well as the state governments, to take crucial steps to address the growing hardship in the country.
It is hoped that doing so will help reduce the crime and insecurity in the country