By Mustapha Aleem
The Osun State Commandant of Peace Corps Nigeria, Ayinde Paul, has urged individuals to do more in the areas of creating peaceful environments in the country as a way of achieving sustainable development in the country.
The Commandant represented by Patriot Olaoye Kemi, stated that, with peace ib our environment, development will by itself trek into the society, emphasizing that selfless mindset should also be encouraged in the government.
This was stated at a Quarterly Social Development Forum themed: ‘Building Blocs For Peace’ on Wednesday in Osogbo.
He said the bane of our development as a nation was the selfishness paraded by a good number of individuals in the society, which he said was inimical to our economy.
According to him, ” Peace is far more than putting weapons aside, peace involves hard work on mediation, conflict resolution through diplomacy, reconciliation, peace building and sustaining peace.
” If all of us can be sustainable development advocates and peace evangelists, we shall save our world from international tension, habitual exploitation, economic chaos, frequent terrorism and peace will abound in our land.”
The Director of Olaoni center, Com. Wale Adebisi, who delivered a keynote address, blamed the retrogression faced by African countries on the activities of the colonial imperialist in the black continent.
He said African countries only served as tools for the whites to achieve their own development, noting that latent colonialism still continued in the continent and perpetrated by some African countries.
Adebisi said, ” Syria and Libya crisis was being fuelled by America and when they discovered it was no longer profitable to their economy, they ordered for a ceasefire in those countries.
“Nigeria as of today, still serves the International Monetary Fund and the United States of America. The IMF will tell our leaders that if you want to get out this recession, you have to increase your petroleum pump price, give your people a lot reasons for the increase and our leaders will come to us dogmatically with such slavery. They still rule us till today and our leaders are the reasons for all this.”
He also decried the level at which the country has been engaging in capital flight with the deceit of crude oil. He said the likes of Chevron, Mobil and other oil marketers in the would explore the country’s oil without government interference for rebates alone.
” These oil operators are the ones doing the exploration for us. Our government are not doing anything at all. These people after exploring, they will give our leaders just a rebate, which is just 20 percent of the profits for 36 States to feed on and the remaining 80 percent will be taken to their countries. This typifies capital flight in economics and any country that engages in such will not witness development even at the slightest.
He emphasized that, except those who are at the helm of the country’s affairs reversed the trend, Nigeria would not get out of recession, saying America had gotten back at the country as a payback for its role in the 1976 economic boom in the country.
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