Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, High Chief Ikechi Emenike, has asked parents in the state not to give up on their delinquent children because their future is bright.
He said that when the APC forms the next government in Abia next year, he (as governor) would rehabilitate them through a life-changing programme he would implement for them.
Emenike, who stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting at Oboro Ikwuano, expressed sadness that some parents after going through the rigours of training their children, they end up in drugs, crimes and other delinquent behaviours.
He said that with the rehabilitation programme the delinquents would not only be freed from the vices that hold them down but also be encouraged to realise their life ambitions hitherto truncated by delinquency.
The APC governorship candidate noted that the rising number of delinquency among Abia youths was as a result of the “Abia environment” created by bad governance which has been a lot of God’s Own State for over two decades.
“Parents should be patient with their children who misbehave because the Abia environment makes it possible for youths to plunge into anti-social behaviours,” he stated.
Emenike regretted that since the inception of the present democratic dispensation successive administrations in Abia have failed to come up with any agenda for youth development.
