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Hamzat Urges Parents, Religious Leaders to Address Societal Issues

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Mar 17, 2025.

Hamzat emphasized the critical role that families and faith communities play in shaping individuals’ values and behaviors.
Hamzat urged parents to re-evaluate their parenting approaches to ensure that children are well-prepared for the challenges of adulthood and equipped with essential life skills and moral principles.
The lecturer emphasized the importance of external peace in fostering societal morality.

Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, called on parents and religious leaders to actively engage in addressing pressing societal issues to promote the well-being of humanity, Eko Hot Blog reports.

Speaking at the 20th Edition of the Late Justice Muri Okunola Memorial Ramadan Lecture, Hamzat emphasized the critical role that families and faith communities play in shaping individuals’ values and behaviors

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Expressing concern over the negligence of some parents in raising morally upright children, Hamzat highlighted the connection between this failure and the rising deviation from societal values.

He urged parents to re-evaluate their parenting approaches to ensure that children are well-prepared for the challenges of adulthood and equipped with essential life skills and moral principles.

Hamzat challenged religious leaders to adapt their teachings in mosques and churches, focusing on how society can be improved through re-orientation.

“We are now raising children that are not ready for life.

Hamzat Urges Parents, Religious Leaders to Address Societal Issues

“Our sermons must now evolve in the mosques and churches. The issue now is how do we start to re-orientate ourselves towards making our society better.

As we all know, the corporate world has changed the DNA of our women to what they are not.

Let us, in our sermons as Muslims, deal with those contemporary issues, proffering solutions to them; if not, humanity can be in a big problem,” the deputy governor warned.

“My admonishment for us as parents and religious leaders is to look into issues that affect our society and the family unit,” he said.

The Chief Imam of Adangba Central Mosque, Ejigbo, Lagos State, Imam Abdulrahman Sulaiman Adangba, in his lecture titled “The Distress in Family Values & Morality in Our Society: A Multidimensional Approach”, urged Nigerians, especially Muslims, to embrace truthfulness, proper management, and reliance on Allah as virtues that can change society for the better. He added that parents should endeavour to create an environment where there is peace and truthfulness.