Oyo Peace Corps Commandant Calls for Peace as Panacea to Nation's Multifaceted Problems

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...Says society will pay for it if youths not well trained

The Oyo State Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Patriot Lukman Adelowo Yekini has stressed that there is  the urgent need for stakeholders at all levels to embrace peace as the only solution to multifaceted problems bedeviling the country.

Patriot Lukman  Yekini made the call during   a Peace Rally to call public attention to the need to ensure peaceful coexistence among Nigerians.

The commandant who led officers of the command from its Oluyole Estate headquarters to Mokola, State Secretariat, Iwo Road ,Challenge and Molete, maintained that there was a need for peaceful coexistence in order to put an end to insecurity in the land.



Commandant  Yekini that explained that peace corps was saddled with the responsibility of reorientating the minds of youths especially students against forms of social vices

Yekini added that the peace march was observed by members of the corps across the country, disclosing that the organisation's core mandate is to ensure peace  reigns supreme in Nigeria.


Patriot Yekini who observed that social vices such as  drug abuse, cultism, examination malpractices, among others  are rampant among the youth, said the cardinal focus and mandate  of the Peace Corps of Nigeria is to clean up the mind of the youths to make them useful leaders of tomorrow.


"If the youths of today are not properly tutored and properly directed to be  true leaders, our society will pay for it, and that's what Peace Corps is all about.


"We want peace to be in our heart, home, state  and everywhere, without peace, their  will not be meaningful development in Nigeria and without peace good policies of government will be very difficult to implement", the University of Lagos-trained Peace Corps chief said.


The Peace Corps commandant who said they are also preaching harmony and  peaceful coexistence among the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, said this would help the nation live together and achieve national progress.


"We are advocating   peace for all in the country, let everyone put hands together to achieve peace and make Nigeria great''.

He added that  the Peace Corps of Nigeria statutory core mandate is to develop , empower and provide gainful employment for the youths of the country  in order to facilitate  peace and volunteering community service towards nation building.


" Our main objective is to train, educate and reorientate the youths of the nation particularly, student  who are future  leaders of the country adding that they need to be good citizens  to redirect their productive energy towards the socio-economic advancement of the nation", he added.

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