From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja
A University Lecturer, Dr. Cletus Oyidi has attributed the rampart cases of youth restiveness in the society to lack of parental care and improper upbringing of children by parents.
Oyidi made the remarks while delivering a lecture, titled: “urgent need for well-informed, well co-ordinated, educated, discipline, drug-free and security conscious of youths” during the meeting of the national EXCO of Egume Ome Descendants Union,(EODU) with stakeholders and youths of Egume community, in Dekina local government area of Kogi state.
Oyidi who is a senior lecturer in the Taraba State University noted that youth restiveness under which most of the social vices were being perpetuated has become a bane of the society which according to him gave birth to cultism, exam malpractices, kidnapping, drug abuse, sexual immorality and other social vices.
He stressed the need for measures to be taken by parents, stakeholders and government at all levels to join hands in eradicating educational ills in order to enhance quality education adding ” the basic principles underlining academic heights are desires, focus, confidence, personal perseverance and divine destiny.”
The University Don pointed out that the quest for quick money and greed among the youths has diverted their attention of from acquiring a sound education, thereby making them to become half baked in the society and could no longer engage in any meaningful venture for self development.
Oyidi therefore called on government at all levels to adopt a pragmatic measures aimed at resuscitating all moribund and ineffective laws towards curbing the spread of cultism, kidnapping, raping and other social vices amongst the youth in the society.
He commended the national EXCO for their foresight, initiative and dogedness in the pursuit of these dream for an egalitarian society devoid of all social vices adding that their good intention is borne out of their zeal to serve humanity.
Earlier, the national president of Egume Ome Descendants Union, (EODU) Alhaji Muhammed Lawal Ibrahim stressed that ensuring peaceful coexistence among visitors and the people of Egume community is a collective task that must be achieved.
Alhaji Ibrahim advised the youths to be always creative and shun social vices that could tarnish the name of their parents and their immediate community at large.
