The Commissioner of Prisons and Correctional Services Brigadier Ioane Naivalurua posed a question to all youths at a passing out parade at All Saints Secondary School last Friday July 24, 2009.

He asked all the youths gathered at the event what they thought of when they heard the old adage “Youth are the future leaders of the World”. 

To get the youths thinking the Commissioner told them that “Youths” According to oxford Advanced learners Dictionary, means the time of life when a person is young, especially the time before a child becomes an adult. 

“So what does it mean when you hear that Fiji will be calling upon young people like yourselves to take up leadership roles at the family, community and national levels? 

“Who is a leader? By definition, a leader is a person who leads a group of people, especially the head of a country. 

Many of you, the Commissioner told the youths maybe still asking yourselves how a youth like me can become a leader, the answer he said was through hard work, vigour, honesty and through living good and moral lives. 

“Let me tell you that there is a very great connection between leaders, like Bishop Qiliho, Principal Curuivalu, our Prime Minister, our President, our honoured guests presented today and myself; we were once young as you. 

“So what happened, did we just grow up and became leaders. 

“The answer is no, we worked towards our goals with the opportunities that we were given to us and we did this through hard work, vigour, honesty and through living good and moral lives. 


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