Spokesman for the FCT Minister, Lere Olayinka, has said there is no reason a man who cannot properly take care of one wife and two children should marry three wives and produce 15 or 17 children.

According to him, 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," he said on X, adding that "This is one problem the north must begin to solve now."

"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?"