FORMER Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, has urged
President Goodluck Jonathan to provide an enabling environment for
youths in the country, saying no crime was justifiable on the grounds of
religious and political indifference as no nation in the world could
progress in an atmosphere filled with insecurity.
Blair, who was the guest speaker at the official commissioning of the
Rock Cathedral of the House on the Rock Church, on Saturday, in Lagos,
made this statement while delivering the keynote address, saying there
was hope for the country if the youth were given a platform to use their
God-given abilities.
But President Jonathan, who was the special guest at the event, said
that Nigeria was passing through a transformation stage and that “we
will get there,” even as he described the present crop of Nigerian
youths as the transformational generation that will make a difference in
the future.
The president advised that for Nigeria to take its rightful place in the league of nations, all hands must be on deck.
Blair, in his own address, condemned the current acts of violence in
Nigeria and explained that nobody had the right to kill another person
for any reasons whether political or religious, even as he advised all
aggrieved groups to channel their grievances to the right quarters
rather than killing people because they would never get justice through
that form of agitation.
He queried why certain groups would take up arms illegally to kill
people in the name of fighting for justice; even as he strongly warned
that the law of the land should take its cause for peace to reign,
adding that Nigeria could only grow if Nigerians could reconcile their
religious differences and beliefs.
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