The Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Anambra State, Sir Joseph Uchendu has advised Nigerian Youths to avoid the repeat of the vents of 1967 in the country and toe the path of peace, justice, and unity as sine-qua-non for the overall development of the country.
The NOA Director, Sir Uchendu, gave the advice when he led some members of his management to an advocacy visit on the Traditional Ruler of Nnewi, Igwe Dr. Kenneth Orizu in his palace on Thursday.
Sir Uchendu, emphasized that allowing the country to degenerate into anarchy, because of the events of the February 25th and March 11th general elections in the country would spell doom for everyone in the country as well as all economic activities.
He said his visit was meant to inform the revered Traditional Ruler, Igwe Oraizu of his new post as the Anambra State Director of NOA and to seek his royal blessings.
According to him, the exercise was also to brief him on the ongoing program of the Agency, nationwide, hinged on Peace Building and Stabilization Advocacy to some selected Traditional Rulers in the three senatorial districts of the State.
He enjoined the people to shun violence at all costs, warning that the Nigerian Government at all levels would not want the recent ongoing crises in Sudan to replicate themselves in Nigeria,” because we are peace-loving people. ”
Receiving the NOA Director and his team in his palace, Igwe Orizu, described the Peace Building Programme of the Federal Government as very apt, especially now that the country is passing through a lot of challenges.
He assured that Nnewi Community, as the economic hob of the state, would not be found wanting in promoting any Federal Government program geared towards hoisting a lasting peace in Anambra State and Nigeria at large
The 98-years-old traditional rule called for the repeat of the advocacy visit by the NOA State Director and his team, to enable them address the Presidents-General of the four quarters of Nnewi as well as Nzukora Nnewi, the highest policy-making organ of the town.
The traditional rule emphasized that the president’s general would take the messages to every quarter of the community.