Former Senator representing Kaduna Central in the 8th Assembly, Shehu Sani has enjoined global Peace Ambassadors to always remain bold to speak the truth to leaders for equity, justice and fairness to prevail in the society.
Senator Shehu Sani was speaking on Wednesday at the World Peace Summit Awards in Kaduna organised by the World Organisations of Ambassadors in collaboration with Hand Up Development Association.
The politician cum Human Right Activist who chaired the occasion and among the awardees told other recipients of the prestigious global award of peace to prove that they deserve the gesture by being courageous.
“Don’t be afraid to speak truth to power,
Power is like a balloon and the truth is like a pin, let’s continue to pray for our country and hope that our travails and crisis turn to a phase in our lives and not be the fate of our life “
No leader in public office, he said, deserve any commendation when people are being Kidnapped .
On restructuring of the country, Senator Sani told Nigerians not to allow themselves to be decieved as the much talked exercise might not see the light of day because the present adminstration is not interested.
“Restructuring has been one issue that has been severally propagated, but do not deceive yourself, people who are in authority today are not interested in restructuring, because they have the control of the House of Representatives, control of the Senate, control of the States; if they want to restructure, it can be done within two weeks, but their interest is not there.
” lt is time for us as a country to do the needful and to understand that there’s a structure defect in our country, so we need to do what is right”, he argued.
He lamented the bane of honest leaders. men of honour and leaders of integrity in the country owing to the several challenges bedevilling us as a people, saying ” I think at a time like this, it’s not just time to pray for our country, but to hold leaders in the position of power accountable .
” I the north like any other part of the country, we have a tradition of remaining silent and be suffering when one of our own is in power and that has been one of our greatest problems adding that, it behoves on us all, ” to remind whoever is in power of his duties as a leader” irrespective of his religion or where he comes from”, he said.
He regretted that if what his efforts and his likes at the National Assembly to keep the leadership on their toes were taken seriously ” if what needs to be done at that time had been done, we couldn’t have been where we are today,” instead he said they ” considered us enemies of the President,or government or enemies of the country ” he added
He also cautioned those clamouring for seccession saying we are better together as a united country and that those who want to divide this country, by carving out their country, will not succeed.
Earlier, the African representative of the World Organization of Ambassadors, Argentina, Dr.David Morondiya Aiye,said the event ” it’s a peace summit to select peace engineers in the various localities to do what we are supposed to do in their various communities. “We understand our society lack peace and without peace there’s no way anything can thrive
“We need voices, people that matter that will go to places that matter and say what need to be said, my call for the awardees today is for them to be proactive and live by example and start doing the work we expected of them”
He disclosed that over 250 peace ambassadors have been awarded by the organization in Nigeria, and that from Kaduna they will be hosting the International peace summit in Abuja on 30th September in commemoration of Nigeria’s October, 1st Independence celebration among other things
