ways of promoting national unity

Ways of Promoting National Unity

National unity can be promoted in the following ways:

1. Tolerance for each other, irrespective of religious and ethnic affiliations.
2. Showing hospitality especially to the strangers.
3. Living a life devoid of discrimination against other tribes.
4. Encouraging inter-tribal marriages, etc.
5. Tolerance: When we tolerate one another, we can live as brother and sisters and the peace of the Nation will be sustained.
6. Hospitality: This is the act of receiving one another in a friendly atmosphere. The habit of treating one another as brother’s keeper,this will remove hatred, and peace and unity will be promoted.
7. Non-discrimination: This is to relate with one another on equal basis and terms. Everyone should not think of himself more highly or superior than others.
8. Inter-marriage: When people from different ethnic groups marry one another, we learn from one another and known our cultural differences which will bring about unity.
9. Support of Government Programmes: When we all support government programmes, governance will be smooth and easy. We will all be the beneficiaries of the dividends of democracy; we will see ourselves as one.
10. We should not run down one another. We should share in our joys and sorrows.

EVALUATION

1. List five ways of encouraging national unity.
2. Explain three ways of encouraging national unity.
3. Enumerate four means of maintaining national unity.