By Our Reporter
Dr Fahad Ahmed-Chikaji, Chairman, Arewa Youth Trust Foundation (AYTF), on Sunday, called for value reorientation to curb the menace of moral decadence in the society.
Ahmed-Chikaji, who disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna State, said this would help to checkmate the ugly trend.
“If members of the society will resolve to fall back to the old values, norms and traditions of attaching importance to proper upbringing of every child in the society as a corporate responsibility of all, then things will gradually be better.
“In the good old days, the responsibility of proper upbringing of a child did not lie in the hands of his or her parents alone but the society at large.
“Here I mean, everybody in the society was a disciplinarian, because no member of the society would see a child doing the wrong thing and allow him go free.
“In those days, everybody is a father, a brother, a sister and a mentor,” he said.
Ahmed-Chikaji observed that if such values would be reintroduced, it would go a long way in solving many of the problems bedeviling the society.
“I can recall when a child does wrong in those days and any member of the society disciplines such child, the parents will visit the disciplinarian to thank and appreciate him for a good and honest job.
“However, this is not obtainable today. Even in schools, many parents do not want their children to be punished, no matter the level of offence committed let alone outside the schools,” he said.
According to him, this has degenerated to the entire society becoming less sensitive to interpersonal relationship and zeal for collective societal growth and development.
He appealed to stakeholders to put all hands on deck to reinvigorate the old values and traditions for the collective good of all. (NAN)
