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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
House of Representatives Committee on Youths in Parliament, has said that it will galvanize young parliamentarians across the country , so as to put issues affecting Nigerian youths and national development on the front burner.
The chairman, House Committee on Youths in Parliament,Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala, stated this at the inaugural meeting of the Committee. He said young parliamentarians are conscious of the fact that so much is expected from them.
Consequently, Alao- Akala said the committee intends to organize conferences to sensitize youths in Parliament, so as to enable them form a synergy in the task of nation building.
According to him, “we represent high demographic of people which is the youth and they are looking up to us that the people we voted for are youths and what are they going to do? How are they representing us well? I keep telling them that only the youths didn’t vote for us we represent a very large community.
“We are Reps with a difference, Nigeria should know that we are ready to put Nigeria back on the map both economically, infrastructural wise and every way possible.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other persons, or we wait for some other time. We are the ones we have been waiting for, we are the change that we seek, according to the President of United States, Obama. We are the change that we seek, nobody will come and do it for us.”
On his part, Sesi Oluwaseun, expressed optimism that members of the committee will leverage on their age to make impact in the parliament.
“We have the age on ours side unless we want to deceive ourselves. The future belong to us, the future of this country is ours. Whatever decision that our leaders in positions today are taking, majority of these decisions are for us than for them”, he stated.
