Scouts worldwide celebrates Founders Day

By Abdulmumini Adeku
Global para-military and voluntary organization ,World Scout Movement recently rounded up activities marking its founders day:Lord Robert Stephenson Badden-Powell.
Investigations by Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos showed that the celebrations actually started recently with the opening up of a state camp exercise by the Lagos State scout Council at the African Church College of Education Compound along the busy Ifako-Ijaiye Road on the 21st February,2014.
It was gathered that the same ritual was taking place about the same time in various state scout council nationwide and around the world simultaneously.
When Paedia Express Multimedia visited the camp site for facts finding,it was discovered that make shift camping bags of 25 in lemon green,greenish and bluish colour were seen dotting the school compound with at least 160 people celebrating in the camp.
Members of the voluntary movement seen at the camp site by The Difference ranged from able bodied adults men and women,children and toddlers as well.
Big fire place made up of wood and other materials that could easily give way to fire was later created with scout members surrounding it at around 8:00 P.m local time as they sang various melodious song to mark the fiesta.
It was later learnt albeit exclusively that a big camp meeting for the state chapter was going to take place in Imota around late July to the early part of August,2014.
Paedia Express saw a parent drive into the compound of African Church College of Education at around and 9:00 p.m. local time to do a last minute check up on her children who were celebrating with their friends and colleagues all through the night over the life and times of Badden powell.
Lord Stephenson Robert Badden Powell, a Lieutanant General of the British Army started the scout Movement almost a century ago and till this day even his descendants identify with the movement.
He died and was buried in Kenya in East Africa ,a place that served as his last official service point before his death.
Paedia Epress Multimedia discovered at the event marking the founders day recently that scouts all over the world usually shake hands with each other using the left hands as this is where the human heart resides.
According to them ,the cultural landmark became rooted in their culture due to peace pact signed by the founder and a Kenyan tribal chief during a time of war and strife.
A source noted that if a man truly gives you his heart then it means that he can be trusted at all times.
Spiritual dedication ceremonies was held in the Church on Sunday and mosque on Friday before the fiesta was rounded up with a parade at the African Church Primary School.
The National Training Commissioner of the Nigeria Scout Federation ,Chief Sunday Lawrence Ogunyale used the occasion to extol the good virtues of the founder of the movement while enjoining others to copy from such lofty ideals in their lifetime.
In a related issue,The Lagos State Scout Commissioner, Chief J.O.Tawoshe used the event to dwell on the importance of the last speech of Lord Badden Powell to our national life at a time Nigeria was at a cross road .
He paraphrased the founder:”I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too,I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life ,happiness does not come from being rich nor merely from being successful in your career nor by self indulgence ,one step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man”