Fashola advocates good parenting, family unity as recipe for orderly, peaceful society By Press Release July 15, 2013 13:18:31pm GMT Gov Babatunde Fashola Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has emphasized good parenting and upright family units as the most viable means to achieve an orderly and peaceful society devoid of violence and other social ills with which the nation is currently bedeviled. Governor Fashola, who fielded questions from newsmen at the LTV Blue Roof Hall at Agidingbi after attending the 5th Alhaji Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu Memorial Ramadan Lecture, said good parenting and family management would always produce good citizens who constitute nations , states and governments. He told the newsmen, “The family unit is the most important unit in any community, in any state, in any country. I think that is where the first government really starts; from the father, mother, husband, wife, through management of limited resources and population to value development, all these have their rudimentary stages at the family unit.”. “Moral training, restraint, contentment and what other knowledge we can impact on the children will go a long way in shaping their lives. Those are children who become great or difficult men and women, as the case may be”, the Governor said pointing out that at childbirth “nobody knows what any children will become”. According to the Governor, “As we agonize about the challenges of insecurity and other societal ills, we must understand that those who make us insecure were born like every child many years ago. So it is for us, parents to go back and discharge our own part of the responsibility to manage our family through good parenting as a lifelong responsibility”. “It is good parenting that breeds great citizens and when you have great citizens, you have great countries, great states and great local governments”, the Governor said adding, “I believe we should talk to ourselves as parents and guardians so as to know where it all started and where it has left us”. Earlier in his remarks at the Tafawa Balewa Square venue of the Ansar-Ud- Deen Society lecture organized by the Lagos State Council of the Society, Governor Fashola charged parents and guardians, “Every household, both father and mother should sit tight because it is the government which no one voted for except the Almighty Allah”. “After the government of Allah, which no one selected, the other government, which is our government, everyone participates because I will not be here but for the fact that you voted for me. But there is a government which no one chose except Allah and that is the family unit, our individual homes which no one voted for except Allah and He vested power on us, both male and female, this is the Family”, the Governor said. Referring to an earlier lecture on security given at the occasion, Governor Fashola said, “If we notice all the guest lecturer said about the kidnappers, robbers and the bombers, I don’t think any of them was born to be robbers, kidnappers or bombers. I know that when these children were born, everyone was rejoicing with their parents”. The Governor noted that the way and manner families that constitute any community or society is would depict the type of government that community or society would have adding, “If the government of the family is good, it will make things better for the local government, the state and the Federal Government”. “Conversely, if a child starts to throw bombs here and there, it shows that the family from which that child comes is completely bad. There is a lot to do both in the family, the local; governments, the states and the Federal Government so as to ensure that we secure the state and the nation”, he said. Governor Fashola prayed for a fruitful observance of the Ramadan fast and its obligations and a continued practice of all the virtues imbibed after the period adding, “May there continue to be peace in Lagos and Nigeria”. Also, in his comments on the two lectures titled, “National Insecurity and Policing; Islamic Facts and Realities” by Ustaz Abdulateef Abdusalam, and “Stress Management: Islamic Antidote” by Dr. Muhammad Salis, at the Blue Roof, Agidingbi, venue of the 5th Alhaji Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu Memorial Lecture, Governor Fashola noted that those who today cause insecurity and stress to the populace are members of individual families and homes adding that parents have a lot to do in finding a lasting solution to the problems. The Governor extolled the virtues of both Alhaji K.O. Tinubu and Alhaja (Dr.) Abibatu Mogaji describing them as epitome of good parents who have produced great men and women who are today contributing extensively to nation building, good governance and development. Responding to a question on Alhaji Razaq Gawat, Governor Fashola said the search for the missing journalist was still on adding that the Government has the hope that he is still alive. “Simply, we continue to search, our files are not closed. We continue to review with the security agencies, especially the Police. We remain positive that until they find him, we are hopeful that he is still alive and investigations are continuing”, the Governor said. Earlier, Ustaz Abdusalam while delivering the lecture titled, “National Insecurity and Policing: Islamic Facts and Realities”, had blamed the Federal Government for the insecurity posed by the various militant groups across the country, blaming the escalation of the problem on what he described as the government’s “cosmetic approach”, to the problems. “Our government never solves any problem 100 percent, rather it employs cosmetic approach to the solution of such problems which eventually resurfaces much later”, the Guest lecturer said citing the Niger Delta, where few years after granting amnesty to the militants, they have returned to the creeks again. Arguing that Nigeria has no reason to be poor with all the abundant resources the Almighty Allah has blessed the land with, Ustaz Abdusalam blamed the spate of social ills such as kidnapping, armed robbery and terrorism on bad leadership pointing out that poor leadership has created mass unemployment which in turn has forced most educated youths into crimes, including kidnapping and advance fee fraud. He, however, condemned all forms of crime especially the shedding of innocent blood adding, “If you kill a single soul, you have killed a generation. It is incumbent on our leaders to protect life and property of citizens. The solution to our problem lies in the restoration of social justice. Good leadership portends good followership”. Among those present at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society Lecture, were its National Missioner, Sheik Abdur Rahman Ahmad, Alhaji Rafiu Ademola Sanni, Senator Muniru Adekunle Muse who chaired the occasion, Chairman Lagos State Council of the Society, Alhaji Nurudeen Olalekan Okuleye, among other Muslim clerics and top government functionaries. At the 5th Alhaji K,O Tinubu Memorial Lecture were, among others, the Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi who chaired the occasion, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, First Lady of Lagos State, Dame Emmanuella Abimbola Fashola, members of the Tinubu Family including its Matriarch, Alhaji Bintu- Fatima Tinubu, Muslim clerics and scholars as well as faithful and top government functionaries.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:21:20 +0000
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