by Abubakar Rabilu, Gombe
The Gombe state governor Alhaji Muhamad Inuwa Yahaya, has appealed the President Muhammad Buhari to exercise speed on the bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Peace corps.
Governor Inuwa Yahaya, made the appealed in Gombe during the Nigeria peace corps zonal meeting to sensitise its staff officers on the need to foster peace in the domains.
Governor Inuwa Yahaya, who was represented by his Chief of Staff Alhaji Muhammad Kabir Usman Kukan daka, says establishing the Nigeria peace corps is very relevant to the Nation.
“To bring peace and development is not only the responsibility of the conventional security agencies, considering their number. They are not enough for the nation, because the total number of our security agencies is not up to two million but the number of the citizens are more than two hundred million.” He added.
While stressing that more hands are needed to ensure peace in the country, he tasked all Nigerians to see the issue of insecurity in the country as everyone’s responsibility and not to be left in the hand of security agencies.
He thanked the corps personnel for being very patriotic in their quest to see that peace is returned to every part of the country and particularly the northeast subregion.
He added that: ” It is my hope and prayer that the bill should be signed into law so that they become lawful as that will give them more zeal to fast track peace for the development of the country.
Gov. Alhaji Muhamad Inuwa Yahaya
The governor added that his administration would prioritise the welfare of youth especially in the area of education to sustain peace in the state.
In his response the National Commandant of the corps Amb. Dickson Akoh, said that in that last two weeks they had embarked on peace awareness to their state command in the zone to bring the command to speed on the need to promote peace in their communities.
Amb Dickson Akoh, said they have been to south west, south south, South east, North west, north Central, and now concluding their tour in North east.
“The purpose of the meeting is that last two years President Buhari revising the bill of Nigeria peace corps and he cited his reasons. some of the aspects militating against the bill seeking the establishment of the corp have been worked on. The issue of duplication of service was the main issue and the paucity of funds.
The National commandant of the corps therefore said before the exist of the eight assembly some bills were revisited and ours was number six on that revisited bills list. So, we are also going round to sensitize our staff officers across the country on the recent development on the bill.
