Abuja – Mr Emmanuel Ibe, Acting Secretary, Police Service Commission (PSC), has urged African nations to end the `blame game` and confront their challenges.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission, in Abuja on Tuesday.
It said that Ibe made the call when he received an Award of Excellence as the 21st Century African Leadership ICON of Meritorious Service to Fatherland in Abuja on Tuesday.
NAN reports that the award was conferred on him by the Pan- African Students Congress, an association of African Students throughout the world.
He pledged his support for the novel programme of the Pan-African Students Congress, “From Arms struggle to Pen Struggle”.
Ibe said that time had come for Africa and its people to put an end to the blame game and fashion out ways and means of confronting its myriads of problems.
“We should change our mentality and stop blaming the colonial masters for the underdevelopment of Africa,“he said.
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He said what should bother African leaders and its people was what to do now to rescue the continent and its people from the harsh economic, social and political climate.
The scribe said that there was still time for the Continent to get together and chart its course for a progressive and prosperous Africa.
He thanked the Congress for finding him worthy of the award and promised not to disappoint or misplace their trust.
Ibe promised to continue to partner with them in their crusade to improve the lot of the African people.
Earlier, the National President of the Congress, Mr Degboe Ayih, said the Congress would launch an education sensitisation campaign on “Save Education, Save the Future of the African Child”.
Ayih, a Togolese and student of the University of Livingstonia, Malawi, said the campaign was aimed at sensitising the people on the importance of education.
He said that the congress would also organise a seminar and sensitisation programme tagged “From Arms Struggle to Pen Struggle” to re-direct the youth from violent to non-violent struggles. (NAN)