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Lamaker Tasks Community Leaders On Peace
The leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Chidi Lloyd, has called on community leaders to see themselves as critical elements in maintaining peaceful co-existence in the society.
Hon. Lloyd stated this last Tuesday while speaking at a peace summit with the theme: “Peace Building” A Panacea For National Development,” organised by Rotary Club of Port Harcourt in collaboration with the State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt.
The House Leader, who represents Emohua Constituency, said community leaders must discourage their youth from negative tendencies by forming youth organisations that build peace in the areas with them as patrons to guide.
The lawmaker noted that the future of Nigerian youth had been hijacked by the elites whom he said failed to provide quality education, employment and good leadership but rather engaged in corruption to the detriment of the society.
He also blamed the political class for recruiting youth as thugs to win elections, and after that reduce them to glorified beggars, pointing out that no society could have peace without good leadership.
Hon Lloyd remarked that most of the militants, violent clashes and the terrorist activities were being perpetrated by the youth, which he said called for concerted efforts by the elites to provide reasonable leadership.
Also speaking, the Director, Institute of Foundation Studies, RSUST, Prof. Amakievi Okien Ijeoma Gabriel, identified poverty, personal interest, human rights abuses, bad leadership as some of the causes of conflicts in society, stressing that it was only when a society was stable that development could thrive.
Chairman of the occasion, the Amanyanabo of Twon Brass, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, said if people did all that they were expected to do, Nigeria would be a better place to live and called on community leaders to encourage youth to engage in meaningful activities.
Earlier, District Governor of Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, Dr Buchy Onuoha, had said the objective of the programme was to encourage peace building as a way of engendering national development.
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