Wake Up To Your Responsibilities

The Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO DCP
Frank MBA has charged parents to wake up to their responsibilities
by ensuring good moral upbringing of their children and wards , if
the nation would attain its lost glory.

He gave the charge while speaking at the 2019 Peace Leadership
Conference and Award organized by the Institute of Peace
Leadership, an affiliate of NISSI Foundation for Skills Acquisition
and Reorientation, at the Police Officers Mess, Ikeja, Lagos.

Represented by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer,
DSP Elkana Bala, Mba, at the conference themed ‘ Educating and
Leading for Peace in an Intercultural Environment’, attributed the
ills in the society to the total collapse of family values.

He stated emphatically that the clamour for peace and security
in he country would only be attained if the family system worked
properly.

He said, “ Parents and guardians have a crucial role to play in
the moral upbringing of their children and wards in times like
this.
“It is worrisome to see some parents becoming so busy and leaving
their children on their own. As parents, we should be thinking of
how to return the family to what it used to be.

“History repeats itself when men refuse to learn. It is time to
have a rethink and find lasting solutions to our national problems
which are lack of peace, conflicts and insecurity and that time is
now!”.

Mba, who received an award of Peace Ambassador from the
institute, also urged heads of families to provide an enabling
environment for their children to becoming good ambassadors of
Nigeria, adding that discussions on the consequences of committing
crimes should be held with families members on regular basis.

In his remark, Business and Career coach, Mr Muyiwa Afolabi ,
corroborated Mba’s position , even as he called on Nigerians to
lend helping hands to the indigents around them.

The keynote speaker, Prof. Adejoke Jibowo of the Faculty of
Education, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, who
also stressed the need for peace to begin from families, advised
Nigerians to preach the gospel of peace in their various
communities.

Chairman on the occasion, Rev Peter Agiarpuye , who advised
Nigerians to always seek divine intervention in the affairs of the
country, also challenged parents and religious leaders to take
responsibility of preaching peace and love for one another to
members of their churches and mosques.

Earlier in his remarks, President and Executive Director of the
Institute, Dr. Ofonime Emmanuel Bassey, explained that the 2019
conference was aimed at addressing current socio- economic and
cultural challenges, “which mainly insecurity, lack of peace in the
society, conflicts” ,even as he emphasised on promoting education
which he said was the bed rock of any development.

Subscribe ToNairalaw News!