Apapo Omo Yagba (AOY), a socio-cultural group of the Yagba people in Okunland, Kogi State, will on Monday converge in Mopa, headquarters of Mopamuro Council, for a unity summit.
The meeting tagged “Yagba Unity Summit” is expected to focus on the peace and unity, economic, sustainable development, and prosperity of Yagba people.
In a statement issued on Saturday by the AOY Summit Media Committee, Secretary of the Central Organizing Committee, Prince Philip Olusesan Orebiyi, gave a line out of what to expect at the summit, emphasizing the importance of peace and unity as bedrock of any form of development.
Noting that Yagba people are “traditionally united,” Orebiyi said unity advocacies can not be overemphasized.
He said, “We must always reorient ourselves on its importance. The Yagba Unity Summit, just as the theme implies, is mainly to foster unity for peace, understanding, and cooperation among Yagba people. When peace and unity are achieved, then we will be able to look into other critical areas that are of interest to Yagba people, and that bothers on our prosperity as a community and a people. The summit will enable us to develop strategies into solving problems of insecurity, youth unemployment, and infrastructural underdevelopment that affect us as a people.”
He also added, “we shall also discuss issues that relate to the exploitation and use of natural resources on our land. With youth unemployment in the rise, we shall consider skills and capacity development. In other words, develop our youth on how to create jobs and businesses that run on our land. Preservation of our cultures and traditions to enhance community building will also be discussed.”
Orebiyi enthused that all private and public invitations sent so far have been acknowledged, adding that virtually all stakeholders of Yagba land have made their commitment to attend the summit “for a greater Yagba”.
