Peace Corps asks President Buhari to reexamine charge

The Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) on Friday engaged President Muhammadu Buhari to reexamine his choice of not consenting to the Peace Corps Bill go by the National Assembly.

The National Commandant, PCN, Mr Dickson Akoh, decided at the Board of Trustees and National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja.

"We need the President to consent to the bill, notwithstanding any reason, yet for the social and profitable engagement of our overflowing young people in accordance with his crusade guarantees.

"The President's withholding his consent to our bill in any case, we will keep on having regard trust in Mr President's authority,'' he said.

Akoh said the bill was intended to give statutory sponsorship to the association, with the center order of engaging the young people, encouraging peace, volunteerism and group benefit.

He noticed that the Nigerian Peace Corps Establishment Bill 2017 was not dismissed by the president for its shortcoming but rather for the imagined guises.

"In each perfect majority rule government and propel society, government should try to investigate all roads to enable and socially connect with the young so as to lessen the social results of their inertness.

"It is in this manner, towards this point I wish to repeat for the umpteenth time that comparable associations like the Peace Corps exist in a few different nations of the world including the America, Canada, Bangladesh et cetera," Akoh said.

The commandant said the capacity of the Nigerian Peace Corps as caught in the bill don't in any capacity strife with the capacity of any current security office.

"There was never a period in the historical backdrop of our nation that the requirement for peace has turned out to be savagely dire like at this point.

"The part of the Peace Corps is obviously particular from the traditional security and para-military associations consequently its position under the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development.

"The forces presented on the Nigerian Peace Corps in the bill don't likewise include arms bearing, examination, confinement and abuse,'' he said.

Akoh clarified that one of the primary targets of the corps was the sending to schools and universities to advance peace, sniff and strainer knowledge, saying this could had kept the snatching of the Dapchi school young ladies in Yobe.