The Anambra State Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Sir Joseph Uchendu has advised Nigerian youths to avoid the repeat of events of the 1967 in the country and toe the path of peace, justice, and unity as sine-qua-non for overall development of the country.
The NOA Director, Sir Uchendu, was speaking 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 today.
Sir Uchendu, emphasized the fact that allowing the country to degenerate into anarchy because of the events of the February 25th and March 11th general elections in the country will no doubt spell doom for everyone in the country as well as all economic activities.
He said his visit were on dual purposes, one to inform the revered Traditional Ruler, Igwe Oraizu on his new post as the Anambra State Director of NOA and to seek for his royal blessings, secondly to brief him on the on going programme 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 equally enjoined the people to shun violence at all cost, warning that Nigerian Government at all levels would not want the recent on going crises in Sudan replicate itself in Nigeria, because we are peace loving people.
Receiving the NOA Director and his team in his palace, Igwe Orizu, described the Peace Building Program of the Federal Government as very apt, especially now 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 programme geared towards hoisting a lasting peace in Anambra State and Nigeria at large
The 98 years Traditional Ruler who called for a repeat of the advocacy visit by the NOA State Director and his team with a view to enable them to address the Presidents-General of the four quarters of Nnewi as well as Nzukora Nnewi, the highest policy making organ of the town, emphasised that they would take the messages to every quarter of the community.