Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate Ike Ekweremadu has called on world leaders to show more commitment and concerted efforts towards sustainable global peace.
He made the call at the weekend during a tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park, where he also met with one of
the survivors of the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima during the World War II, Mrs. Keiko Ogura.
Ekweremadu was quoted to have made the call in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media), Uche Anichukwu.
Senator Ekweremadu, who was accompanied by the Ambassador of Nigeria to Japan, Hon. Godwin Agbo, said the Hiroshima disaster remained one sad experience that should steer mankind away from the part of senseless armament and war.
“It does not pay to have crises, as the best thing that can happen to mankind is to have peace and to live in peace with one another,” he said.
He observed that global peace was not the absence of disputation within or among nations, but the commitment to resolve issues by means of dialogue rather than aggression and armed conflicts, since at the end of the day, even the warring nations or groups would still end up at the dialogue table
Ekweremadu added: “It is our prayer that this kind of tragic incident would never happen again in our lifetime and even after. I believe that we all, as world leaders, need to ensure that there is peace everywhere in the world.
“We must end all armed conflicts immediately, and pursue peace with everything that we have- in our homes, in our communities, in our countries, our continents, and indeed globally.”
