‘Making sacrifices part and parcel of leadership’

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SARIKEI: Youths, groomed as leaders, have to accept the fact that making sacrifices is part and parcel of their responsibilities.

Making sacrifices was, however, more demanding for leaders who had been entrusted to shoulder the mandate of the people.

In the grooming process, the element of sacrifice was minimal, Belawai assemblyman Datuk Hamden Ahmad said when officiating at the closing ceremony of the Youth Leadership Course at a hotel here yesterday.

Youths, offered the opportunity to be groomed as leaders, should consider themselves very fortunate, as they were provided with proper guidance and positive input, he said.

Being groomed as leaders, the participants were injected with positive input but at the same time  exposed to the wrongdoings committed by their friends as a way of educating them to differentiate between right and wrong.

Hamden hoped those offered the opportunity to be groomed as youth leaders make the best of it.

Assistant Youth and Sports director Mohd Mazlan Anis said some 5,000 youths nationwide were offered the opportunity through its Calibre Youth Leadership Programme.

The department had already implemented six of the seven programmes slotted for this year, he said.

The programme held here from  July 8 to 11 was attended by 70 youths  from Sri Aman, Betong, Sarikei and Sibu.

Mazlan hoped the participants would play their role effectively as they had been entrusted to show

a good example to other youths  who made up about 45.5 per cent of  the country’s population.

Among those present were Divisional Youth and Sports officer, Noim Lanjis and secretary of Sarikei District Saberkas, Ibrahim Tuah.