By Najib Sani
Bauchi
Permanent Secretary, Bauchi state Ministry of Women Affairs and Child Development, Alhaji Muktar Wadaji has asserted that children are the greatest asset of every nation, saying “any country without responsible children is dead.”
The permanent secretary, who made this assertion yesterday during children party organised by the wife of the state governor, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed Abubakar, to celebrate this year’s Christmas, tasked parents and teachers to inculcate good values in their wards so that they would be responsive and responsible citizens in the future.
“Indeed, children are the greatest asset of any nation but the roles of the parents; to love, nurture, support and develop the children within the context of the family and the community, is essential for them to be properly guided.
“The current administration takes as priority the welfare programmes and interventions that will improve the lives of the grassroots, particularly women and children,” he stated.
In her speech, the wife of the state governor, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed Abubakar, represented by the wife of the deputy governor, Hajiya Fatima Nuhu Gidado, explained that the party was organised to give the children in the state a sense of belonging.
She advised them to assist their parents in house chores during the Christmas, new year and all public holidays in order to reciprocate the love and care showed to them by their parents.
