Forty boys were last Sunday inducted into the 1st Company of the Gambia Boys’ Brigade in a ceremony held at the St. Mary’s Cathedral in Banjul.

The Boys’ Brigade is a voluntary Christian youth organisation established in 1883. It was however established in The Gambia in 1976 and the aims of the organisation, inter alia, includes moulding the character of boys in order to better prepare them to ‘decide’ to take the path of Christ at an early stage as well as making them instrumental in church activities.

Speaking on the occasion, Captain Samuel Adeolu Ojo, head of the Gambia Boys’ Brigade, said the boys’ brigade is out to imbue the spirit of Christ in youths and to promote in them the virtues of obedience, discipline, self-respect and all those things that tends towards a true Christian ‘manliness’. The Boys’ Brigade, he went on, is an international organisation which enrols only committed people.

Mr. Olu finally informed the newly enrolled boys that he would be constantly monitoring them to ensure they live up to the expectations of becoming good leaders in the society and offered them prayers to be humble leaders who would obey Christ in the right manner.