As part of celebrating children’s day on Tuesday, stakeholders across different walks of life have urged students to shun any act that will affect their future and drug abuse.
Speaking at a children’s day celebration and book launch in Abuja, the National Orientation Agency urged students gathered from different schools to imbibe the spirit of partrotism and avoid any act the would bring shame to their families.
The event witnessed the launch of a book ‘Entitled: Adventures of Enobong’ written by Ekenem Ogegere Selia, a 32-page which focused on improving human values in the children.
Representative of the agency, Princess Egbe Akezua charged the students a d the participants to be good ambassador of Nigeria anywhere they are.
Also speaking, Patricia Aniebue, a public servant warned students against abusing drugs, noting that one of the quickest ways of falling in life is by abusing drugs.
Also speaking, the author of the book, Ekenem said she was encouraged to write the book because of her passion for better society with children with good moral values.
According to her, “my own passion is what got me to this line, and the grace of God and the inspiration of God. Also wanting to educate the children, wanting to bring back our morals, our values, and having books written by Nigerian for Nigerian children that they can relate to, that is why I started writing children’s book. This is my fourth children’s book. This book was derived from at the happenings around. There is a generation that we have not installed all those values like appreciation, respect, kindness, compassion, patriotism.
The Nigerian child is respectful. That is where ‘Entitled’ comes in.
Speaking on collaboration with government, the author said “right now, I have gone to the National Orientation Agency. They are in charge of giving information to the citizen and citizen education. I also reached out to the Citizenship Leadership Development Center, and they have also agreed to partner with me because they are involved in teaching the senior citizens. But now we need to start getting learning into the children from 15 and below, let them continue to see a picture of how a Nigerian child should be the pride of Nigeria, so that is what we are doing.
“The government is already doing well. What we need to do now is to get these books into schools. Get our own Nigerian books into schools and ensure that they have the structures that depict our cultures and our value in the right way.”
