SDG’s TAKE A LEAP IN AKWA IBOM STATE...As Youths Inaugurate Advocacy Group

By: Uduak Nseabasi

A group of young development activists’ penultimate weekend gathered in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, South South Nigeria for a Breakfast Luncheon to advance the plausible ideals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), and push new frontiers for youth voluntary involvement in community development. 

Acting under the aegis of SDG’s Ambassadors Advocacy Group, the youths drawn from about 28 Local government Areas of the State resolved to develop broad based partnership with other public/private sector initiatives to fast- track the achievement of the +30 global agenda for sustainable development. At the end, the Group inaugurated a protem Steering Committee to coordinate the affairs of the body towards realizing its objects.

Speaking at the Luncheon, Philip Owen, Convenor and erstwhile Vocal Person for NYSC MDG’s CDS Group highlighted that ‘this gathering is yet another sharp pointer to the ever ready spirit of Nigerian youths to compliment efforts of the global community to stimulate action over the next remaining twelve years in areas of critical importance for humanity and planet’. Expressing the resolve of the Group not to shy away from responsibilities associated with the SDG’s, Owen reasoned that, “as youths, we are determined to take bold and transformative steps, on a collective journey to achieve the goals of global sustainable development, which itself is a recommitment to the full realization of the Millennium Goals, particularly in reaching the most vulnerable in hard to reach communities”. 
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Adding rather proactively that, “by the function of the all round success of this inaugural session, we are going to urgently develop reliable platforms for corporate governance, research, documentation and advocacy to ensure good governance and complete domestication of the SDG’s at all levels”.

Others who spoke, re echoed the need for young people to participate actively in tracking the momentum of the Sustainable Goals, while urging Government and other development partners to map out spaces and strategies for youths to be involved in enunciating the ideals of the global development agenda.

On his part, Mr. Faith Paulinus, a consummate social entrepreneur and Post-Graduate student of History/International Studies at University of Uyo wants all hands to be on deck with two years already gone. Said he, “We are worried that two years have already gone, yet, Nations and other development partners are still unable to take off properly, the SDG’s are yet to be domesticated at all levels: Nobody is mapping out spaces and strategies for involvement of target groups, especially the youths, while policy makers are still looking at the global agenda as a mere slogan. We need a new approach, and believe we should take action rather than wait on the authorities perhaps so we may not have to travel the MDG’s road again and again. 
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It is unthinkable to imagine that after 2030 the youths shall be made to tolerate excuses induced by indolence and sheer lack of political will by world leaders, especially in the developing Nations’ of Sub-Sahara Africa”.

The Convenor, Philip Owen, charged the Local government representatives to act as Coordinators/Vocal persons by keeping vigilance in policy formulation/decision making in their domains to ensure that such policy decisions tally with the ideals of the SDG’s, while also working out interventions and programmes that shall go a long way to eradicate extreme poverty being the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, saying, “we are determined to free human race from the tyranny of poverty and want, and to heal and secure our planet”.

At the session which featured Plenary, Interactive Forum and Talk-Shops, an interim Steering Committee was put in place to anchor the administrative machinery of the Group, and set workable timelines and programmes for the achievement of its objectives. Some of the inaugurated Steering Committee members are Ambassador Philip Owen, Cordinator, Lady Lucy Ewa, Assistant Cordinator. Mr. Akwa Akan, Secretary and Comrade Faith Paulinus who is to serve as the Public Relations Officer (PRO).
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