NGO canvases increased moral education of children

Chief Executive Officer, Advocacy for Positive Behavioural Pattern Initiative, Mr. Mann Bamidele, has canvassed for increased education of children in moral values in order to promote a better society.
Bamidele said this in Abuja at the just concluded one-day capacity building seminar for secondary school students within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Speaking on the theme:”Positive Attitude: Future Assured”, Bamidele said it was necessary to catch them young as building on the moral values of the students would translate into a society void of corruption.
Students were drawn from Government Secondary Schools (GSS) in the six area councils of the FCT territory, notably: GSS Zone one, two, three, six, GSS Gwagwalada and GSS Life camp.
He added that the aim of the organisation was to enlighten teenagers and public on the need to imbibe positive societal values and norms.
According to him, this positive societal values and norms will bring an end to the misconception that corruption is a genetic phenomenon.
To achieve this, he insisted it must start from the grassroot with the parents, teachers, clergy and everyone involvement to build our country.
He urged the students and Nigerian youths to be mindful of the kind of company they keep as this would determine what they become in life.
He further observed that many Nigerians in Diaspora were ashamed of revealing their identity as Nigerians to foreigners because of the notion that all Nigerians were corrupt.
“The belief that corruption is genetically transmitted is false, it is socially acquired; the fact that one is born into a corrupt family or society does not mean he is corrupt,’’ he said.
He, however, advised children to put up positive attitude and values to ensure secured future.
Also, Gender and Social Development Secretariat, FCTA, Mrs. Agnes Hart, lamented the lack of common moral ethics in children.
Hart stressed the need for the family to be up and doing in nurturing the children as they would be leaders of the country in future.
According to her, if we as parents don’t do the needful when the children are still young, it will be difficult to imbibe the needed morals for them to become good citizens of our country.