The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has asked the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa to address the issue of youth unemployment in their effort to find solution to terrorism.

Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah.

Oulanya made the remarks while meeting a team of IGAD member which is currently soliciting views on the need of the region to counteract terrorism threat led by the chief executive officer of the Africa policy Institute Prof.Peter Kagwanja.

He said that there should be a mechanism that will make youth employed so as are not targeted by elements of terrorism activities.

Oulanya said that IGAD should have a strategy which does not interrogate only the effects of terrorism but find out the possible conditions that force some body to venture into terrorism extremism.

He added that IGAD should have individuals advocating for anti-terrorism who could have passed the test of impartiality so as they deal with the issue of violent extremism in a realistic manner.

Prof.Kagwanja, who is the member on the IGAD team soliciting views on how to counteract terrorism, said that they expect to give out a realistic report with better strategies to deal with terrorism in the IGAD region.