The National Commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps, Prof. Dickson Akoh, yesterday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill into law before May 29 as a parting gift for the Nigerian youths.
Akoh, who made the appeal in Abuja in his Sallah message, also urged the president to equally absorb Nigerian youths who participated in the exercise.
He explained that the bill, when signed into law, will create employment for the youths and also ensure total peace in Nigeria through mediation, conflict resolution and community engagement.
Daily Trust Saturday reports that both the Senate and House of Representatives had earlier passed the bill and it is currently before the President for assent.
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Akoh said, “The entire contents, especially the functions contained in the Bill is indeed a summation of inclusive empowerment programmes for the youth and on how to harness their innate potentials for the overall tasks of nation-building.”
“It is in the light of the aforesaid that I wish to humbly use this medium to appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, to do the needful by assenting to this all-important Bill which will no doubt, give positive credence of his concern for the plight of the youth, nationwide.
“Assenting to the Bill will be a deserving parting gift to the youth of the nation, for which posterity will always reckon with him on the right side of history,” he said.
