Omooba Dotun Babayemi,has charged that the nation at 62 years of independence should strive to grow up in tune with its age and...
Omooba Dotun Babayemi,has charged that the nation at 62 years of independence should strive to grow up in tune with its age and be weaned off its besetting problems.
Besides,Babayemi called for a convocation of a national summit of stakeholders in the country where primordial issues which breed ethnic and religious suspicions could be holistically tackled for the unity of the nation.
In his independence message to Nigerians as issued by his Media Office, he lamented the stagnation being suffered on all fronts in the country.
"At 62, one thinks Nigeria ought to have by now, outgrown issues and challenges that had assailed it at the outset.It's a sad commentary and lamentable that we keep moving in a circle with seeming lack of clarity of direction of where we are heading to.The situation is deplorable and calls for concern" he bemoaned
As a panacea, Babayemi contended that putting in place a parley of relevant stakeholders from all the geo-political zones of the country to discuss issues affecting the nation, would not be a bad idea.
"Even though similar parleys had been held in the past with no results,that does not mean we would abandon that route. We shall continue to discuss until we drive ourselves to the point of solutions" he stressed
According to him, the nation's leadership must not sleep over matters of insecurity and issues that pertain to the youths;"security challenges in the land should be the concern of everyone of us which should not be left in the hands of the government alone;it's everyone's business.The security of lives and property can not be compromised under whatever guise and that's why everybody must be concerned"
While calling that the country's decaying infrastructures be rejuvenated so as to make life easier to the citizenry, he warned that urgent steps must be taken to bring the youths back on track otherwise the future of the nation would be in jeopardy.
"Most of our youths seem to be off the course because they have somewhat lost faith in the system and unless we urgently work out a mechanism that would reinvest their beliefs in the system, the future of the country might be in danger because they are the future of the nation" the Gbongan-born Prince warned.
Meanwhile, Babayemi has enjoined the populace to continue to work for the common good of the country, insisting that the nation has all it takes to be one of the best in the world if the people could develop the right attitude towards it.
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