Mrs Amaechi Tackles Parents, Warns Against Abuse

Mrs Amaechi Tackles Parents, Warns Against Abuses, Curses

MRS. Judith Amaechi, wife of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has lashed out at parents who take delight in child abuse, and cursing children. While charging them not to lay curses on their children, she insisted that the best thing to do is always to pray for them and wish kids well even in the light of any provocation.

AkanimoReports said on Saturday that the governor's wife spoke when she received members of Scripture Union at Government House, Port Harcourt.

But in Gokhana, an Ogoni local government council in the state, as part of effort to promote early child education and literacy programme among Rivers children the council has redeemed N18 million as counterpart funding for the building of permanent site for ESI Nursery School run by the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) a non-government organization being promoted by Mrs. Amaechi.

The governor's wife is however, attributing youth exposure to social vices during their development to lack of proper parenting resulting from wrong foundation.

According to her “the problem with the youths today is that the foundation is wrong from birth, and the future will become bleak, if the foundation is right, the system will also be right, it is very worrisome that our youths are going through this situation”.

She is also blaming parents who do not inculcate the purpose and virtue of God in the children for the degeneration in the value system rather than invoke cursing on them at every provocation adding that the parents have enormous role to bless or destroy their children “parents are guardians of these children and their utterances when provoked can make or mar the future of the children. We must not speak evil, lay curses on our children but to bless them and pray for them”.

She charged the Scripture Union to be alive to this challenge and vacuum created by lack of proper parenting and to raise the youths on the path of righteousness with the fear of God.

The founder of the ESI stated that the objective of ESI nursery school was to begin to inculcate moral values in the kids and preach the words of God that can shape their personality in the future.

Coordinator of Scripture Union in Rivers State Cyril Harry said activities of the organization spread across secondary schools and tertiary institutions and has rolled out various programme aimed at developing the youths and to work with the fear of God.

He disclosed that the Scripture Union is about to launch a centre that will help the youths and develop them to become better citizens.

In the mean time, Chairman of the Ogoni council, Victor Giadom, who led principal staff of the council to sign the memorandum of understanding and presented a cheque of N18,000,000 representing 50 per cent contribution to the project said the council has placed some much premium on the education advancement of its people and will be willing to partner with Human Capital Organizations in this direction.

The Gokhana Local Government Council is the first Local Government Area in the state to partner with the ESI in providing a befitting nursery school for its early child programme.

While presenting the cheque, Mr Victor Giadom said the council decided to partner with ESI due to the impact of its content on the morale and education advancement of the kids and expressed optimism that Gokhana Children will be among the emerging educational advantage local government area.

Part of the MOU reads that the council has agreed to contribute the sum of N18,000,000 or 50 per cent of the cost of building one of the ESI nursery schools in Gokhana Local Government Area, ESI will promote excellence in early child education in Gokhana Local Government Council and partner with the council.

Responding, the project coordinator of ESI, Mr Nowa Omoregbe said the council’s initiative is a demonstration of its desire to build human capacity of its people from the cradle and added the school when completed will also serve as centre for adult literacy programme.

Mr Omoregbe thanked the council for the confidence reposed in ESI and pledged his organisation’s determination to drive the early child initiative in the council, toward achieving its set objective.

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