West African Youth Peace Mission (WAYPEM) has lamented that despite huge mineral and petroleum resources deposits in African continent, the youth in the continent keep facing pressing challenges which makes them remain parlous and leave much to be desired.
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, WAYPEM mission President, Professor Prince Godswill, said corruption and lack of initiatives on how to effectively harness the potentials of the available resources have been identified as a bane of economic development in Africa.
Professor Godswill noted that the peace mission will be hosting the fifth World Youth Peace, Security and Economic Summit on 8th December, 2023 in Abuja with the theme: ”Youth and Peaceful Economic Development”.
He said the Summit will be targeted at building the capacity of youths in soft skills that will make them relevant.
Furthermore, he stated that global leaders across the globe would be honored with an award for excellence, peace and development at the summit.
The WAYPEM Mission President further stated that the summit will also be targeted at the promotion, facilitation and modernisation of the state of affairs of youths within the sub-region.
‘At WAYPEM, we initiate and promote the training of members for the development of individual talents to contribute to the economic development of their respective countries, with regards to career prospects in socio-cultural development.
“We assist in the organisation of rural youths towards the development of their skill in arts and culture”. While noting that the organisation serves as rallying point for the world youths, he said the mission has a membership capacity of 240 million in 42 countries with its headquarters in Nigeria and its main focus nations G8, G20, G77 via UNO, CWN and other international and regional bodies.
”We strive to achieve the foregoing objectives by organising conferences, workshops and seminars around the globe for the benefit of youths; encouraging and emphasising the use of dialogue as veritable means of resolving conflict situations between youths and government.
”We discourage the use of drugs, violence, cultism, kidnapping and other criminal vices amongst youths, which are detrimental to the development of society, and generally monitor both private and governmental programmers using industry’s best practices, to assess their possible impacts on youths”, he said.
He revealed that there would be representatives from USA, China, Japan, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Iran, Togo, Ghana, Britain, Canada, Pakistan, Venezuela, Brazil, Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, Australia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Syria, Algeria, Libya, and all West African members countries.
. TheWitness
