The Permanent Secretary in the Governor’s office made the call as youths prepare to celebrate their day tomorrow.

Placard-carrying youths from primary, secondary, higher and professional institutions in Bafoussam, turned out in their thousands in the courtyard of the Bafoussam City Council on 4th February 2015, to witness the official launch of the 49th edition of the National Youth Day activities in the West Region.

The event was presided over by the Permanent Secretary in the West Governor's office, Emile Simon Mooh.

Addressing the youths, Emile Simon Mooh talked at length on this year’s theme, “Youths and the preservation of peace for an emerging Cameroon.”

He said youths should start thinking of their personal contributions to nation-building, adding that no Cameroonian young person should be tempted into joining the 'satanic group' known as Boko Haram.

President Paul Biya, the Secretary General noted that he has set up structures like PADER, PIASSI and many others, to assist the youths improve their living standards.

Emile Simon Mooh insisted that recalcitrant youths cannot benefit from such projects. The Youth Week will be marked by sport events and cultural activities throughout the West Region. Messages of unity, peace and stability and portraying youths as leaders of tomorrow, were contained on the placards. The young people used the occasion to thrill the public with cultural activities like traditional dances from the Grassfields, fashion parades, sketches, choral music and poems.

In one of the sketches, which drew applause from officials on the grandstand, the students of College Sacre Coeur, Bafoussam, reminded parents that they have the key to the door of prosperity for their children, which must pass through the education of these youths. They insisted that education was the only viable tool for success.