THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITY

THE IMPORTANCE OF UNITY

In a village, there lived a man with his 3 sons whose names were Adebayo, Adesola and Adeola. The man was a very good and wealthy man whose name was Ade but his sons were in no way pleasant. They shouted and argued and fought and turned the house upside down. Their father was very worried and tried to reconcile the three of them to each other but his efforts were useless.

After some time, Ade became very ill with all the stress and tension at home. He worried about what should happen if he died leaving his sons as orphans since their mother died years ago. The more he worried, the more his illness progressed.

It finally got to a point where even his doctors began to worry so much and they knew that if he continued that way, then he might die. They decided to prescribe bed rest which did not help at all. Immediately Ade sensed what was going on with the doctors, he gathered his sons around his bedside and told the youngest (Adeola) to bring him 3 broomsticks.

He tied these sticks into a bundle and gave it to the Adebayo who was the eldest to break but he could not do it. He likewise gave the bundle to the middle son (Adesola) and to the youngest but they could not. Then, the man untied the bundle and gave the 3 sticks to his 3 sons to break. They broke the sticks easily.

Ade then said “It is true what people say ‘United, we stand, Divided we fall’. When you are united, you can stand against anything but when separated, you will fall no matter what you do.

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