Youths to hold summit to tackle national crises

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, May 14th, 2012

The First Nigerian Youths Multi- Stakeholders Dialogue Summit scheduled to
hold this month in Abuja has been postponed. The event will how hold on July 2,
2012.

In a release signed by Abdullahi Abdulmajeed, the convener and
Chairman and Yinka Sotade, Secretary, Summit Organizing committee, and made
available to Sunday Sun, the decision to postpone the summit was necessitated by
the need for a more robust and wider consultation with relevant stakeholders at
the grassroots in a bid to bringing all possible views to the
roundtable.

He said the summit will address the numerous challenges
confronting the nation and identify the unique roles that youths can play in
putting an end to the monstrous insecurity that stares us in the
face.

The statement reads in part: “We hope to have you present at this
noble event where we seek to promote sustainable peace, unity and reconciliation
within Nigeria towards the actualization of an egalitarian society where
prosperity and sustainable development will be guaranteed for all.

“We
shall be unfolding the possibility of the power and beauty of united action with
mutual understanding; tolerance and trust across every ethno-religious divide in
this country as a most fundamental asset and foundation to strive towards the
sustainable development and growth of our dear country.“We are a group of youth
leaders, activists, democrats, professionals, students, artisans and researchers
who are deeply concerned about the direction in which the Nigerian society and
its people are heading, and the state of national and global politics in
general.

“In furtherance of our vested interest of contributing
selflessly to the development of our communities and the country at large, we
have engaged in wide consultations among ourselves on the need to take action
that is capable of complementing all efforts aimed at making this country great
again.” The group said it is no longer news that ethno-religious crisis in
Nigeria is becoming consolidated and perennial, with underdevelopment and
poverty growing at an alarming rate.

“The reoccurring crisis amplified by
the emerging trend of insurgency and terrorism has compelled thousands of
Nigerians to abandon their places of domiciliation to seek refuge in their towns
of origin or in neighboring states.

“While the country battles
perennially with ethno religious and political crisis with the quantum of dismal
and far reaching consequences on innocent citizens unabated, this new and more
dangerous dimension of hostility and bloodshed that has suddenly resurfaced in
the annals of our country’s affairs is quite worrisome. Militancy, insurgency
and several acts of terrorism are fast becoming the medium adopted by different
segments of the country’s population to register some form of discontent,
reservation, cry of marginalization or alienation of their ethno-religious
groups or regions.”
-Sun

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