Rivers Chief Judge Tasks Youths On Leadership

The Rivers State Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, has expressed hope of emergence of new African continent through a visionary leadership championed by the younger generation.
This, he said, was because the African Students Union Parliament had reinvigorated the new vision of African continent through the association and added that bad leadership was responsible for the backwardness of the region.
Justice Amadi stated this when the leadership of the African Students Union Parliament paid him a courtesy visit and bestowed on him award of PAN-AFRICAN Leadership price For Excellence in his office in Port Harcourt, recently and charged the youths in the continent to be responsible in order to be involved in leadership position.
The number one judicial officer in the state expressed worry on the manner in which youths in the country were being used for political thugs and sent on political errands with peanuts as reward, adding that the youths must rise above such situation, take their destinies in their own hands and decide for their future .
“Whatever programme you want to do in the state tell us we will contribute our own quota because we know what happened to our youths. In political campaigns you will see our youths and at the end of the day they will be given peanuts but you will not see the sons and daughters of those politicians who are hiring them in such rallies”, he stated,
The Chief Judge commended the students for the award and promised to partner with them in ensuring that youths get the proper place in the country.
Earlier in his speech, the Director of Programmes Temple Ozim, who spoke for the Majority Leader, Kwassi Faustin, said the union was in Nigeria to seek for partnership with the judiciary on campaign against drug abuse, stay back on African and presentation of excellence award on the Chief Judge of the state as an icon.
Our correspondent reports that the African Students Union Parliament were currently operating in 54 countries of Africa.

By: Akujobi Amadi