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Peace
By Collins Yakubu-hammer
Abuja, Sept. 22, 2016 (NAN) Mrs Lauretta Achudume, the Chief Executive Officer, `Women of Like-minds Initiative’ and organiser of Miss Peace Beauty Pageant says the organisation will use the event to preach peace.
Achudume made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of a cocktail party to celebrate the `International Day of Peace’ in Abuja.
“During our beauty pageant, we are going to talk and educate people on peace, because it is all we need; without peace, there is nothing that can strive in this society.
“We are going to empower those that will emerge winners; they will be crowned Peace ambassadors.
“Also, we are going to have projects for them that will bring about peace in the society, Achudume said.
She admonished parents to start building peace from their homes and inculcate it in their young ones.
“ Those guys that are causing unrest in the country are from a home; I believe that women have a role to play in peace building starting from their children.
“Parents should teach their young ones how to talk and respect people around them; that is basically what we are canvassing for.’’
NAN reports that the Miss Peace Beauty Pageant would hold in Abuja in November.
Speaking in same vein, Mrs Eki Agorom, the Chief Executive Officer of Katherine Parker Initiative (KPI), said there was the absolute need to create awareness on peace.
Agorom observed that the increasing rate of insurgency in the world was becoming alarming, and maintained that love and peace remained the only remedies to global threat.
She called on the youth to shun all forms of violence, as well as political thuggery.
“That is why societal influencers are expected to constantly pass the message and build the peace awareness we are creating.
“Peace has to reign in our hearts; love your neigbour as you love yourself; peace should start from the home.
“By so doing, killing other people or taking other peoples’ lives would not just be a thing that anybody can do with the snap of a finger,’’ Agorom said. (NAN)
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Edited by Ese E. Ekama