Don blames security challenges on improper child upbringing

Zaria (Kaduna) – Sheik Ahmed Bello-Dogarawa of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, has said that improper child upbringing is the cause of the country’s current security challenges.

Bello-Dogarawa made the assertion while delivering a lecture entitled “Contributions of proper child upbringing toward addressing national security challenges”, held in Zaria on Monday.

The ‘Post Ramadan Lecture’ was organised by a Zaria-based religious organisation, Islamic Trust of Nigeria.

The don also linked improper home training with moral decadence which, according to him, leads to societal collapse.

Bello-Dogarawa urged parents to brace up to their responsibility by ensuring proper upbringing of their children, “bearing in mind that you will testify before God how you brought up your children”.

The Islamic cleric also blamed relations, government and the entire society for the moral decay among Nigerians, and called for a change of attitude if the nation must record any meaningful development.

In his speech, the chairman of the occasion, Sheik Salihu Abubakar, advised Muslims to redouble efforts to bring about positive change in the society.

He called on leaders at all levels to endeavour to accept advice from good people regardless of their political, tribal and religious leaning.

“In Nigeria, when you call on leaders to correct their mistakes, they will consider you as an opposition which is not supposed to be.” (NAN)