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Lagos Ex-Commissioner Laments Ritual Killings, Wants A Rejig Of Social Structure
By Babatunde Kaka
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Lagos Ex-Commissioner laments increace in ritual killings, calls for Rejig of the social structure
- He lamented the erratic state of affairs of the majority of homes and families,
Garbadeen revealed that young people become vulnerable to negative peer influence as a result of inadequate care of their parents.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that a former Commissioner of the Lagos State Civil Service Commission, Duke Olabode Garbadeen has said that the increase in ritual killings amongst young people has become a menace to the society and reveals the cracks in the nation’s social fabric.
He said the dastardly act is endangering the lives of young innocent girls in recent times.
Garbadeen made this statement in an interview with EKO HOT BLOG during the Epe Professional Women Association’s celebration of four iconic women over the weekend at Epe Club, Epe.
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According to Garbadeen, it was imperative to talk about the matter based on the gory storylines sweeping across all available news and media outlets in Nigeria.
Commissioner Olabode premised his opinion about the ugly situation on the reckless disintegration in the institutions of morality, the home and school, which serves as a compass for uprightness amongst the youth.
According to him, “There is a break in social sequence. We have schools through which all of us must pass to become complete humans.
“There are schools and these schools follow a sequence and it was committedly observed like that, but at a point, one of the sequences which happen to be one of the foundations, I mean the first layer, what you can call the structure, was neglected seriously and once the structure is bad or wobbled, any superstructure will not stand.”
He explained further that the first school for any child is the school of the parents (home), where children are morally guided from the cradle and as well sanction disobedience to moral principles.
The school, he noted, was the next place of socialisation where the child, after contact with the home, is meant to be nurtured by disciplined educators.
While he lamented the erratic state of affairs of the majority of homes and families,
Garbadeen revealed that young people become vulnerable to negative peer influence as a result of inadequate care of their parents.
He also opined that the parental care expected of parents are more or less ineffective.
He said, “Let me tell you, every young person would have ambition and desires, they would want to have access to good things of life but it is the society, the combination of those forces such as the parents, the teachers and so on the would keep them under control and guide them with virtues such as hard work, knowledge and skill acquisition, after which work follows. Those things have failed, seriously.”
He further axed the other agents of socialisation for being sentimental by failing to uphold the moral tenets of every fabric of the society.
“We also have an extremely sentimental society. Things that we ought to come together and condemn, we indulge our young people.
“We even have a Police Force that there is a limit to which they hold people with iron hands. Society will come asking,” he lamented.
Garbadeen didn’t expunge the negative contributions of the elderly in misleading the young people. However, he lampooned the youths for letting down themselves while also stressing that the way out of the viral quagmire is a rejig of the agents of socialisation.
“Unfortunately, what we have now is all these youths, what they have become is what the elders have made them become. But those elders were not like that during their youth days.
“Even if that is true, the moment you know that the leaders do not mean well for your life, should you also join them to ruin your own lives?
“These are very complex and unless we go back to the drawing board, and get it right and straight, shall we continue to wallow in the circle of problems as we’ve been witnessing today,” he disclosed.
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