Students in Tamale mark AU Day, call for peace
Students from basic and second-cycle schools in the Tamale metropolis on Saturday went on a peaceful procession through the principal streets of the metropolis, amidst singing and dancing, and demanding the promotion of peace in the country for development.
Most of them carried placards to signify their peace message with some of them reading “We want peace”, “Let us all speak peace”, “Let us all join the campaign for peace in Ghana”, “Our region is bigger than all the political parties” and many others.
Master Emmanuel Akolbila of Tiyumba JHS and Miss Jaato Sylvia of Bawa Barracks JHS told the GNA that peace was the major tool that could transform the nation, noting that, turbulent social and economic environments were inimical to the progress of the nation and urged all, including political parties to champion peace.
The AU Day is an annual event observed by independent African nations. Today’s celebration marks a decade of the formation of the AU and a jubilee anniversary for the Organization of the Africa Unity (OAU).
Mr. Bede Ziedeng, Northern Regional Ministe,r who addressed the students, said the country decided to celebrate the occasion is to give meaning to the commitment, as a nation that believes in the ideals of the OAU and the AU.
He said it was appropriate that the nation and the continent in general used the occasion to pay glowing tribute to the founding fathers of the OAU and AU, including Osagyfo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, noting that, the goals of the organization still remained relevant.
Mr. Ziedeng observed that the achievement of the socio-economic and political gains of the continent had been truncated by conflicts, poverty, illiteracy and bad leadership, stressing that, Africa must take advantage of the huge economic market to expand trade.
“We must do away with all forms of divisiveness, be it ethnic or religious…we are bound together by a common feature of under-development and disease which can only be overcome through peace”, he said.
Source: GNA
There’s a saying that; if you want to ‘die in peace’ you first have to ‘live in peace’. Let us forgive each other only then will we live in total PEACE as a country.