Tejiri Ebikem

THE Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and Governors of Osun and Edo States, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbasola and Adams Oshiomhole are to partake in the productive visionary leadership of Action Gold awards billed for Friday in Abuja.

General Co-ordinator, Centre for productive visionary leadership, Engr. Taofeek Ayinde, who disclosed this to newsmen in Warri, said the programme is aimed at making the youths to be useful to themselves and the society.

Engr. Ayinde further said the programme which coincide with the presentation of prizes and awards to winners of national Essay competition, has its theme as “making Government and corporate programmes work through productivity and effective leadership”.

He decried a situation in which most of our leaders of today are subjecting our youths to serious mental torture, the result of which is the simultaneous sporadic behaviour of our youths.

“We are seeing a situation where there are a lot of unfortunate incident which gave birth to deadly groups such as Boko Haram, MEND, JAMES, MASSOB and others, threatening the corporate existence of our great country”, said the group co-ordination.

According to him, the activities of the centre is to discover, develop and structures among our youths to encourage empower and protect productive hands of our youths.

“This is a programme created purposefully to explore the minds of our younger generations, seeking to know what they think about their country, their aspirations and preparation for the challenges facing us as a country”, stressed the organization helmsman.

While calling for government and individual patronage, the group leader, lamented that youths in the country are not properly oriented, trained, persuaded, exposed hence there are insecurity everywhere.