To conceive of youth as going up to 79 years of age is to exclude young people between 15 and 35 years of age from any decision-making process insofar as old people, arrogating to themselves the places of young people, continue to act in place of these young people... Has Africa not regressed in terms of the empowerment of young people from the time when, in the 1960s, ministers were aged between 27 and 30 years? Of course, not only are we no longer in the 1960s, but we must understand that the old have more experience than the young... We cannot say that all of a sudden, the old concede all the places to the young... But the young, in a war situation, must then show the old what they are capable of, on the battlefields, it is the young, of inestimable determination and ineffable commitment, who, in addition to being defenders, are saviours deserving of the tributes of the entire nation every day. By contributing in this way to the fight against insecurity, our youth are showing themselves to be citizens and participating in the advent of an emerging Africa... Let us decree a set of national days: a national flag day, a national day of the ...
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