The Lord Mayor of International Association of World Peace Advocate (IAWPA), Amb. Apostle Francis Adegbonro Adekunle has stressed the need for everyone in the society to embrace peace at all times, having seen that it is the key panacea that could guarantee rapid development and maximum productivity.
Amb. Adekunle who stated this during the official conferment of the prestigious Eminent Peace Ambassador’s Award on three Patriotic Nigerians held in Port Harcourt by the executive members of International Association of World Peace Advocate in line with the United Nations (UN) vision of recognition.
He further, reiterated in an interview that it was not a contestable fact the vision of UN is always geared towards promoting peace in the society which must have necessitated the move by IAWPA to honour the three Patriotic Nigerians found doing good in preaching peace and touching lives positively.
“Indeed, the three young Patriotic Nigerians being decorated here as Eminent Peace Ambassadors have adopted into the legion of Eminent Peace Ambassadors, hence it behooves on them now to intensify efforts in using the instrument to championing the message of peace at anywhere they found themselves and also be touching lives positively in the society”.
“Truly, why we often records some spate of violence in the land today is not that one does not want to be peaceful, but experience had shown that there are certain factors that can make peace to be threatened which the cause could be traceable to one not doing well in life, say unemployment or engaged in doing one meaningful thing or the other.”
The respected Lord Mayor therefore, enjoined everyone to try as much as possible to do well in adding value to humanity by showing kindness on whoever that is close to them, believing that by so doing, it will indirectly lead to promoting peace in the society.
“Unarguably, the World we are living inside today, is under constant construction and destruction via the instrument of man and it is whom you are giving your life that determine what you are doing, either you give yourself to God and become an agent of construction or you give yourself to devil and become an agent of destruction”, he said.
Earlier the International Spokesman of IAWPA Amb. Emmanuel Nkweke had charged the three recipients of the Eminent Peace Ambassador’s Award to be of good conduct and ensure of steadily propagating the message of peace within the community and also in their place of work.
Nkweke also used the opportunity to remind the awardees, as an Eminent Peace Ambassador, the importance of reaching out and touching the lives of the downtrodden in the society.
Also in a separate interview, one of the Awardees, Amb. Pastor Udofia Otu expressed happiness with the honour bestowed on him as an Eminent Peace Ambassador.
The visibly elated Otu however described the honour as a ‘Super Award’ which will spur him up more in reaching out to the down trodden in the society in line with the SDG goals that has to do in cautioning the effect of hunger in the society as well as assisting some indigent students towards their educational pursuit.
