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Obasanjo Reveals What Nigeria Needs To Focus On To Defeat Insecurity
we will have a long gestation period of training – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed what the nation needs to focus on to defeat insecurity.
The elder statesman made the revelation at an event he attended in Ibadan, Oyo State today, May 22, 2021.
The occasion was the commissioning of the Professor Abayomi Oluwatosin Jiboku Building and Entrepreneur Centre at Lariken International College, Ologuneru, Ibadan..
Obasanjo asserted that ” If we are going to get out of the morales of insecurity, banditry, Boko Haram, kidnapping and other criminalities, we will have a long gestation period of training and educating all Nigerian children.
“And I underlined, all Nigerian children. Education is the beginning of a life well-lived.
“God has given each and every one of us the innate ability. It is when those innate abilities are developed that you can be of best in your own self-service, in the service of our nuclear and extended family, in the service of our community and in the service of our nation and the world.
“Education, and there is no substitute for education. If you don’t give it, then those you should have given it to don’t have it and if they don’t have it, then you don’t get the best out of them and whatever you get out of them, if you start to complain, you will have yourself to blame. Education and quality education is important.”
“ … The second thing that I will want to mention is culture. I define culture as the totality of the way of living of a particular people. Our food, our hair, make-up, fashion, dance, songs and even the way we carry our marriage and even our burials are all our culture from cradle to grave.
“What makes us different as a people is that totality of our ways of life. Yes, I do agree that culture is dynamic and of course if there is any part of our culture that must be removed, yes, we may have to remove it, but don’t let us forget our culture.
“Don’t let us have our culture to be overtaken by cultures that are not ours.
“Also, I want to tell us about values. One of the ways where we have problems in our society today is the worth or the value that we cherish.
“Today, money-making is something else. In Yoruba land, money-making is not one of our values but the Omoluabi ethos; truthfulness, integrity, truth, industry and hard work- where are all those now? Where have they gone? Why have we put them aside and all we are striving for is money?
